As Inspector-General of Antiquities for Upper Egypt, Weigall crossed the Eastern Desert on official inspections, and here describes those journeys for the general reader. He follows the old roads from Keneh to the Red Sea, visiting the quarries of Wady Hammamat, the imperial porphyry quarries of Gebel Dukhan, Mons Claudianus and the temple of Wady Abad.
An evocative desert travel book by the Egyptologist who later reported on Tutankhamun’s tomb. Download the free EPUB.