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Al-Azhar University ELRC participants visit Wadi Al-Hitan (Whales Valley)

 

ELRC members in front of whale fossil remains

June 18, 2009

40 of Al-Azhar University’s assistant teachers and instructors studying at the English Language Resource Center (ELRC) made a field trip to the Egypt’s protected area of Wadi Hitan, 80 KM west of Fayoum city. The site which was declared a world natural heritage by the UNESCO in 2005 where fossil of the earliest whale remains were found.

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