Online: Bir Abu Safa, Eastern Desert
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Online: Bir Abu Safa, Eastern Desert


New York University

A Water Temple at Bir Abu Safa (Eastern Desert)
By Steve E. Sidebotham, Gabriel T. Mikhail, James A. Harrell and Roger S. Bagnall.
JARCE XLI 2004

I found this, as usual, whilst looking for something else. This paper about a very unusual rock-carved temple in the southern Eastern Desert (very broadly on a level with Aswan, in a wadi linking to the Red Sea coast).




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