Wadi Sannur Cave Protected area, dates back to 65M years

Noha Ragab

Mon, 24 Jul 2017 - 10:40 GMT

Noha Ragab

Mon, 24 Jul 2017 - 10:40 GMT

Wadi Sannur Cave - Egypt Today

CAIRO - 24 July 2017: The Sannur Cave in Bani Suef governorate, which is located about 115 km south of Cairo is one of the unique places dating back to 65 million years of the Middle Eocene Epoch, which was known to have lasted from 56 to 33.9 million years. The name Eocene comes from the Ancient Greek culture.

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The cave is a unique phenomenon in Egypt and worldwide, its importance is attributed to the emergence of limestone protrusions that represent stalagmites and stalactites that looks like glass, including white long pieces looking like snow and others seem like coral reefs.

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The Sannur Cave is located near the village of Sannur, which lies on the east bank of the Nile, 18 kilometers from the Nile bridge and the protected road starts in front of the village on a paved desert road about 50 km in the south-east direction known as the Marble Trail. The cave became important in 1992, when the quarry workers in the area were looking for Alabaster marble, during the explosion of the surrounding caves; they discovered a very small cave. Geologists found out that the history of the cave was known to be from the Middle Eocene.