Portrait of Space, near Siwa, Egypt 1937 In the seventh episode on Western Female Travellers, we focus on Lee Miller’s visits to Siwa....

In the sixth episode of our series on Western Female Travelers, we focus on Brigitte Schiffer’s visit to Siwa. The first visit (August...

From the beginning of this series of posts, I have had doubts about whether I should include Mrs. Hillier, who often led...

In the second episode of the series on Western women travelers, we recount the journey of Baroness Marie-Thérèse Ullens de Schooten to...

Today, I’m starting a short series of posts dedicated to the first European female explorers who reached Siwa in modern times! In this...

In addition to a previous post from 2020 regarding Brigitte Schiffer’s visit to Siwa for her doctoral research on Siwan music, I would...

Today, however, I made an interesting discovery: while browsing a film magazine from 1938, I found an article mentioning the existence of...

Paul Ascherson, in his article “Die Bewohner der Kleinen Oase in der Libyschen Wüste,” mentions a colony of Siwa inhabitants who settled...

ypothesis on the presence of an earlier building on the current site of the Funerary Temple of Wenamun (Umm el Ubayda) in the Siwa...

The article, which appeared in the magazine "Le Matin" on January 20, 1935, is the result of the visit of the journalist and writer...