On the recommendation of a friend in Siwa, I found a papyrus preserved in London that I did not know, discovered more than a century ago which bears a "Postcard" sent by a certain Nearchus to his frie
The diatribe on which of the two temples is that of the Oracle of SiwaUntil the visit of the Scottish traveler James Hamilton in 1852 all modern travelers (Browne, Horneman, Cailliaud and following) believed...
Martin Briggs' book "Through Egypt in war time"Martin Briggs' book "Through Egypt in war time" describes Egypt as seen by the author during the First World War and the English Campaign...
Greek inscriptions on the Falesia of Gebel DakhrurIn the same walk on the mountain of Dakhrur I also found that some of the Greek inscriptions on the Falesia published by Ahmed Fakhry and...
Graffito of 1899 engraved by Baron Von Grünau at Gebel DakhrurIn the last few days I took a walk on the mountain of Dakhrur in search of the graffito with the name of Cailliaud seen by some of the...
Luis Rivet at Siwa in 1953Taken from the magazine "Le Canal" n ° 7 August 1953 related to first trip by Luis Rivet at Siwa. I thank Jean Pierre Connan for the...
For a Tuscan, since many years in France, a double prideWith the Franco-Tuscany expedition in Egypt, directed by Jean-François Champollion and Ippolito Rosellini, the scientific Egyptology...