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Edward William Lane 1801–1876The Life of the Pioneering Egyptologist and Orientalist$
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Edward William Lane 1801–1876: The Life of the Pioneering Egyptologist and Orientalist

Jason Thompson

Print publication date: 2010

Print ISBN-13: 9789774162879

Published to Cairo Scholarship Online: September 2011

DOI: 10.5743/cairo/9789774162879.001.0001

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A Second Voyage to Nubia

A Second Voyage to Nubia

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(p.199) 11 A Second Voyage to Nubia
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Edward William Lane 1801–1876
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Jason Thompson

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American University in Cairo Press
DOI:10.5743/cairo/9789774162879.003.0012

After the equinox but not until June 23 1827, Hay and Lane, and presumably Kalitza, set sail for Upper Egypt and Nubia. Two day's sailing brought them to Beni Soueif at midmorning, where they left the boat to make an excursion into the Fayyum, the large, intensely fertile area to the west of the Nile. Passing through a break in the western valley escarpment, it then flows down into the Fayyum, one of several large depressions that dot the Western Desert of Egypt. At the other end of the passage through the hills, Lane made a much more careful examination of the Pyramid of Hawara. It had once been cased with limestone and had likewise slumped into ruin when the casing stone was stripped, exposing its mud brick core, yet retaining an impressive appearance.

Keywords:   Upper Egypt, Nubia, Beni Soueif, Fayyum, Western Desert, Pyramid of Hawara

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