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Updated: May 23, 2025
Michael Ireton had been thrown in close contact with one of the excavators who had formed the camp in the hills behind Tel-el-Amarna they were now both employed in the same Government office in Assiut.
With the desire of accomplishing this, Sir Benjamin Baker, the leading authority on engineering works in Egypt, prepared a scheme for reserving a vast storage of water in Upper Egypt at Aswan. It was also decided to follow up the enterprise with another to be undertaken at Assiut. On February 20,1898, the khédive approved of a contract with Messrs.
But when she spoke again her voice was lazy and calm? "I suppose you won't stay on the Nile for ever?" Again her fingers closed mechanically on one of the boxes. "But no! I shall have to go back to Assiut, and then to Cairo and Alexandria, the Delta, too." "And the Fayyūm? Haven't you property there? Isn't it one of the richest districts in Egypt?"
The following is the gist of his narrative: "Some seasons ago I travelled up the Nile as far as Assiut, and when there, managed to pay a brief visit to the grand ruins of Thebes. Among the various treasures I brought away with me, of no great archæological value, was a mummy. I found it lying in an enormous lidless sarcophagus, close to a mutilated statue of Anubis.
In this case, however, large beams of wood are laid across the boats, which are often loaded in couples lashed together, and from which are slung nets upon which the water-pots are piled to the height of 10 or 12 feet, and one may often meet long processions of these boats slowly drifting down stream to Assiut or Cairo.
Minia is one of the wealthiest towns in Upper Egypt, and it was thought probable that the Senussi might attempt to raid Minia or Assiut, with a view to plundering the banks and giving a start to any disaffection among the fellahin. On 5th March we moved again farther south to Sohag, and a squadron carried on to Kilo 145 on the Sherika line to take up an outpost line.
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