Author: Susan Biddle. This post is the second of four relating to water. The first in the series focused on personal washing arrangements. This second…
George A. Hoskins (1802-1863) was a trained barrister, writer, and traveler who visited Egypt and Nubia during the early 1830s and again in the 1860s….
Author: Susan Biddle. This post is the first of two looking at the impact that the intense work and isolated living conditions at Arabah el-Madfunah…
Author: Susan Biddle. This post looks at some of the illnesses, both minor and more serious, that afflicted the Abydos team, and how these were…
Author: Susan Biddle. The last post described Myrtle’s voyage from the UK to Marseilles, via Gibraltar, in 1929. There she was joined by two more…