The Road to Chephren's Quarries
1939; Wiley; Volume: 94; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/1787245
ISSN1475-4959
Autores Tópico(s)African history and culture analysis
ResumoEvening Meeting of the Society, 12 June ig3g TV/fOST of you have heard of the Darb el Arba'in, the wicked old camel i V? route of forty long days between El Fasher, the capital of Dar Fur, and Asyut, by which gold and ivory, gum, skins, ostrich feathers, and slaves were brought in medieval times from the Sudan through Kharga Oasis into Egypt. Through traffic along this route ceased during the period of Dervish rule in the Sudan, and has never revived.
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