Bir Sigam

Bir Sigam in the Bahariya Oasis of Egypt's Western Desert, in the Giza Governorate approximately 300 kilometres southwest of Cairo, is a sulfated artesian spring in one of the most historically rich oasis landscapes in the Sahara, where ancient Egyptian temples, Greco-Roman tombs, and fossilised sea creature deposits from the ancient Tethys Ocean coexist in a single extraordinary landscape. The Bahariya Oasis is famous for the Golden Mummies archaeological discovery — thousands of gilded Greco-Roman era mummies uncovered from a vast ancient necropolis — and its White Desert National Park, where chalk formations sculpted by wind erosion create an unearthly white moonscape. Bir Sigam's sulfated warm spring water provides a natural thermal resource within this geologically and archaeologically exceptional oasis environment.