Travels in the Upper Egyptian deserts . The camp in Wadi Fowakhieh, looking- down fromthe hills on the north side. The camel tracksare seen passing- along the valley.—Page Wady Fowakhieh, looking east. The camel tracks will be noticed viii. To the Quarries of Wady Hammamat. 51 before one as do these blocks awaiting removal tovanished cities. There are many Greek inscrip-tions to be seen, the majority being grouped to-gether in a recess amidst the rocks on the southside of the valley. Here one reads of persons wboworked for Tiberius, Nero, Domitian, and otheremperors ; and there
Travels in the Upper Egyptian deserts . The camp in Wadi Fowakhieh, looking- down fromthe hills on the north side. The camel tracksare seen passing- along the valley.—Page Wady Fowakhieh, looking east. The camel tracks will be noticed viii. To the Quarries of Wady Hammamat. 51 before one as do these blocks awaiting removal tovanished cities. There are many Greek inscrip-tions to be seen, the majority being grouped to-gether in a recess amidst the rocks on the southside of the valley. Here one reads of persons wboworked for Tiberius, Nero, Domitian, and otheremperors ; and there are their drawings of men,animals, and boats before one, as fresh as when anhour at noon was whiled away in their these the last days of the quarrying dates acauseway which passes up the hillside on the southof the valley, and which was intended to ease thedescent of blocks quarried higher up. The Romanshave also left watch-towers on the hill-tops, whichindicate that peace did not always reign in thedesert. The night which closed in on us all too soonbrought with it the silence of the very wind fell, and the whisperings almost young moon
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