Upcoming Lecture

Egypt's material culture has long excited people around the world, but did you know that this region's history stretches back well into the Mesozoic Era, or Age of Dinosaurs? In the early 20th century, a series of German expeditions recovered fossils of several new and extraordinary dinosaur species from the Bahariya Oasis in Egypt's Western Desert. Tragically, all these fossils were destroyed during a bombing of Munich in 1944. In 2000, a collaborative Egyptian-American research team became the first scientists to discover dinosaur fossils in the Bahariya Oasis in nearly a century. More recently, researchers from the Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology Center have collected additional dinosaur fossils from Bahariya and have expanded their paleontological efforts to include geologically younger sites in the Kharga and Dakhla oases. These discoveries have cast unprecedented light on Egypt's remarkable dinosaurs, restoring a scientific legacy that was lost during the Second World War.

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