Wadi Al-Hitan

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**Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley)**^a
**UNESCO World Heritage Site**

State Party	Egypt
Type	Natural
Criteria	viii
Identification	#1186
Region^b	Arab States
Inscription History
Formal Inscription:	2005 29th Session
a Name as officially inscribed on the WH List b As classified officially by UNESCO

Wadi Al-Hitan (Arabic: وادي الحيتان‎, Whale Valley) is a palaeontological site in the Al Fayyum Governorate of Egypt. It was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in July 2005 for its hundreds of fossils of some of the earliest whale forms, the archaeoceti. The fossils show remnants of hind limbs, recording the evolution of whales from land-dwellers to ocean-dwellers.

Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley). UNESCO. Retrieved on 20 July 2006.
"Africa World Heritage sites named", BBC News, 15 July 2005.

World Heritage Sites in Egypt

Abu Mena | Islamic Cairo | Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur | Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae | Saint Catherine Area | Thebes with its Necropolis | Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley)

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Coordinates: 29°16′15″N, 30°02′38″E

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