Kharkha

Kharkha is the largest of the oases in the western desert. The town is built around some of the dozens of springs within an area about five miles wide and 10 miles long, in a valley about 10 times that size. Kharkha is a major caravan crossroads, and the valley shows the results of millennia of use. One example is a ruined temple nearly 2,000 years old (possibly built for the worship of Amut, Mût, and Chons) with palm-frond pillars supporting what remains of the roof, walls shaped like papyrus scrolls and covered with ancient carvings, and a long hallway lined with statues of ram-headed sphinxes. A Ruined Fortress of the Hyperboreans sits on a raised plateau within the valley, its wall gradually crumbling but its numerous guard towers still mostly intact.

Settlement

Kharkha, Town of

Ruler

Administrator Agaw-begawe

Government

bureaucracy

Population

1,432 (mostly Khemitite)

Type

Town

Owning Organization

Khemit