Kharga

Kharga is a long oasis in Egypt's Western Desert, where wells and underground channels sustain cultivated land amid the arid plateau. At ancient Hibis, a temple of Amun was built under the Persian king Darius I. The oasis later stood on the Darb al-Arba'in, the caravan route between Darfur and the Nile Valley. Its wells offered a vital stopping place on journeys carrying merchants, goods and enslaved people across the desert.