Qasr el Banat
Ruins · Egypt
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 25.919, 33.263
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: Qasr el Banat is an ancient Roman fort located along the Wadi Hammamat road, starting near the present day position of El Qoseir and connecting the Red Sea to th
History
Qasr el Banat is an ancient Roman fort located along the Wadi Hammamat road, starting near the present day position of El Qoseir and connecting the Red Sea to the Nile this route has been used for thousands of years with graffiti found along the route ranging from the Predynastic period to the Islamic era with some graffiti and petroglyphs in the immediate vicinity of the road dating from the Old Kingdom, the New Kingdom and from the arab period, in particular there is a nearby rocky outcrop covered in graffiti which gives the fort its name, as well as graffiti covered limestone block near the southeast corner of the station. Some inscriptions near the fort have also been dated to the Augustan and Hadrianic period.