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Over time, the
Bahariya Oasis has had a number of different
names. It has been called the Northern Oasis,
the Little Oasis, Zeszes, Oassis Parva and the
especially during the
Christian era, the Oasis of al-Bahnasa,
along with various other names. At one time,
the Bahariya Oasis, as well as most of the rest
of what is today referred to as the
Western (or Libyan) Desert, was the floor of
an immense ocean. Yet from about 3000 BC until
the present, almost no rainfall graces this part
of the world, so groundwater is its life blood. |
