. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . udin, from a photograph by Major Brown (cf. The Fayûm and Lal:eMaris, pi. xv.). 2 A description of the shores of the like will be found in Jomard, Mémoire sur le lac Mœris (inthe Description de lÉgypte, vol. vi. pp. 162-164), and Schweinfurth, Reise in das DepresnonsgebM,p. 34, et seq. 516 TEE FIRST TEEBAN EMPIRE. benefits of the inundation, and supplied the means of existence for a civilizedpopulation. In many places we still find the remains of villages, and wallsof uncemented stone; a small temple even has escaped the general ruin, andremains
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . udin, from a photograph by Major Brown (cf. The Fayûm and Lal:eMaris, pi. xv.). 2 A description of the shores of the like will be found in Jomard, Mémoire sur le lac Mœris (inthe Description de lÉgypte, vol. vi. pp. 162-164), and Schweinfurth, Reise in das DepresnonsgebM,p. 34, et seq. 516 TEE FIRST TEEBAN EMPIRE. benefits of the inundation, and supplied the means of existence for a civilizedpopulation. In many places we still find the remains of villages, and wallsof uncemented stone; a small temple even has escaped the general ruin, andremains almost intact in the midst of the desolation, as if to point out thefurthest limit of Egyptian territory. It bears no inscriptions, but the beautyof the materials of which it is composed, and the perfection of the work, leadus to attribute its construction to some prince of the XIP11 dynasty. Anancient causeway runs from its entrance to what was probably at one timethe original margin of the The continual sinking of the level of the. THE SHORES OP THE BIRKET-KERUN NEÀR THE EMBOUCHURE OF THE TVADY Birkeh has left this temple isolated on the edge of the Libyan plateau, andall life has retired from the surrounding district, and has concentrated itselfon the southern shores of the lake. Here the banks are low and the bottomdeepens almost imperceptibly. In winter the retreating waters leave exposedlong patches of the shore, upon which a thin crust of snow-white salt isdeposited, concealing the depths of mud and quicksands beneath. Imme-diately after the inundation, the lake regains in a few days the ground it hadlost : it encroaches on the tamarisk bushes which fringe its banks, and thedistrict is soon surrounded by a belt of marshy vegetation, affording cover forducks, pelicans, wild geese, and a score of different kinds of birds which disport 1 This temple was discovered by Schweinfurth in 1884 (cf. Reise in das Depressionsgebiet imUmlreise des Fajums in Janu
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