Monastic Heritage Places in Wadi Naqqat, Eastern Desert, Egypt

This dataset is based on a cultural heritage survey conducted in 2018–2019 as part of the project "Endangered Hermitages: Documenting Coptic Monastic Heritage in Middle Egypt and the Eastern Desert", funded by the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE). It was produced through collaboration between the Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa (EAMENA) project and the Coptic Monastic Heritage Archive (CMHA) at the University of Ljubljana. The GeoJSON file documents 14 monastic heritage sites located in the Wadi Naqqat region of Egypt's Eastern Desert. These sites are accompanied by PNG maps and charts generated dynamically. The dataset is stored in the open-access, web-based EAMENA database, hosted by the Universities of Oxford and Southampton, and is used to assess the impact of various disturbance factors – such as tourism, visitor activity, vandalism, looting, and other illegal activities – on these cultural heritage sites.