Baharia Oasis: Its topography and geology

[Footnote 1: This ruin was described by CAILLIAUD (Voyage à Méroé. etc., vol. I, p. 183) who records that in his time (1820) only the central arcade remained standing. Steindorff found in 1900 that even this last fragment had fallen.]

[Footnote 2: _Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries within the Pyramids, Tombs, and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia, and of a Journey to the Coast of the Red Sea, in search of the Ancient Berenice, and another to the oasis of Jupiter Ammon._—London, 1820, pp. 395-433.]

[Footnote 3: Voyage à Méroé, au Fleuve Blanc, an-delà de Fàzogl dans le midi du Royaume de Sennàr, à Syouah et dans cinq autres Oasis. Paris, 1826. The work consists of four volumes, accompanied by numerous maps and plates illustrating the antiquities.]

[Footnote 4: Relation d’un voyage dans la Marmarique, la Cyrénaique et les Oasis d’Audjelah et de Maradèh. Paris, 1827. (This date is probably wrong, as a reference is made in the work, (p. VII) to the suicide of Pacho on Jan. 26th, 1829).]

[Footnote 5: Modern Egypt and Thebes. London, 1843, vol. II, p. 357-371.]

[Footnote 6: See G. ROHLFS, Drei Monate in der libyschen Wüste, Cassel, 1875; JORDAN, Physische Geographie und Meteorologie der libyschen Wüste, Cassel, 1876; and ZITTEL, Geologie der libyschen Wüste. Cassel, 1883. Jordan appears to have been the only member of the Rohlfs’ party to actually visit Baharia. He left the other members at Lake Sittra (N. lat. 28° 42′ 40″, long. 27° 4′ 23″, E. of Green.) and entered Baharia from the N.W. of El Qasr; after passing about 1½ days in Baharia Oasis he journeyed southwards via Farafra to rejoin his colleagues in Dakhla.]

[Footnote 7: Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin, Band 20, Heft II, 1885. Also Dr. Schweinfurth’s summary of Ascherson’s results in “Petermann’s Mittheilungen,” 22. Band, 1876, p. 264.]

[Footnote 8: On the Stratigraphy and Physiography of the Libyan Desert of Egypt. Q. J. G. S. Nov, 1894, pp. 531-547.]

[Footnote 9: Vorlaüfiger Bericht über seine im Winter 1899-1900 nach der Oase Siwa und nach Nubien unternommenen Reisen.—Königl. Sächs. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 1900, p. 226. Steindorff entered the Oasis from Siwa, and returned from it via the Fayum. He appears only to have visited the northern part of Baharia.]