Margaret Mary Vale, 2011, Sand and Silver: Jewellery, Costume and Life in Siwa Oasis, London:Kelim• Local vegetables store As a result of this isolation, Siwis developed a unique natural culture manifested in its crafts of basketry, pottery, silverwork and embroidery and in its style of dress | Siwa Oasis, Cairo: AUC, p |
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Ilahiane, Hsain 2006 , "Siwa Oasis", Historical dictionary of the Berbers Imazighen , Historical dictionaries of peoples and cultures, 5, Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, Inc, p | Bompiani, in her description of the 19th-century explorer , called this site the Oasis of Jupiter Ammon |
It's history has not only been shaped by all major civilizations, but also by the contrast of the surrounding desert with the lush soil of the oasis setting.
9Siwa was also the site of some fighting during and | In the 12th century, mentions it as being inhabited mainly by Berbers, with an Arab minority; a century before stated that only Berbers lived there |
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According to 2016 CAPAMS census:• This site is produced and maintained solely by the local people of Siwa for the enjoy- ment and education of all |
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The best known of these pieces is a huge silver disc called 'adrim' and a torc, called 'aghraw' from which it hung over the breast | The fragmentary remains of the oracle temple, with some inscriptions dating from the 4th century BCE, lie within the ruins of Aghurmi |