One of the first available videos of the Siwa Oasis

Sergio Volpi
Oct 30, 2017
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The Baroness Ullens de Schooten's Journey to the Siwa Oasis in 1926 or 1927 was probably organized by the Libyan Oases Association in Alexandria, owned and operated by Captain Hillier, formerly of the Frontier District Administration, with a stop at Prince Farouk Hotel, also owned by Hillier. It was a small, two-story hotel located on a spur of Gebel al-Mawta.

“A travers le sable et la jungle” article by Marcelle Prat

On the recommendation of a friend in Siwa, I found a papyrus preserved in London that I did not know, discovered more than a century ago which bears a "Postcard" sent by a certain Nearchus to his frie

Localization problem of the "Temple of Amoudayn" (Temple of the two columns) in Siwa Oasis

One of the first available videos of the Siwa Oasis

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