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...
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Greek inscriptions on the Falesia of Gebel Dakhrur
In 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 Dakhrur
In 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 1953
Taken 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 pride
With the Franco-Tuscany expedition in Egypt, directed by Jean-François Champollion and Ippolito Rosellini, the scientific Egyptology...
Siwa in Medieval Trade Route Networks
Medieval Trade Route Networks: The site reports the commercial traffic in the world known during the Middle Ages (11th -12th century)...
For those who still believe that Christianity has never arrived in Siwa
Belgrave says (Page 88): "Somewhere about the fourth century Christianity penetrated to Siwa, and the ruins of a church, or monastery,...
The Hymn to Ammon composed by Pindar and sent to Siwa where Pausanias, some centuries later, will se
We know from Pausanias that, in Thebes, in Boeotia, Pindar offered a Statue by the sculptor Kalamis in a temple dedicated to Ammon. ...
Bruneau de Laborie. Du Cameroun au Caire par le désert de Libye
Bruneau passes from Siwa in 1923 to the end of its long journey that will end in Alexandria, but give very little news about the oasis...
Through Lands of the Bible by H.V. Morton (1938)
In the 1930s, H.V. Morton decided to make a Christian pilgrimage from the Euphrates to the Nile, and into Sinai, and to tell the story of...
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