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Wadi Allaqi
Wadi Allaqi is a long dry valley in the Eastern Desert of southern Egypt, running from the Red Sea Hills towards the Nile south of Aswan. It held the richest gold mines of ancient Nubia, worked by Egypt in the New Kingdom and later by the Banu Kanz chiefs under the Fatimids.
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