Tag Archives: agriculture
A Report from a Visit to Sai Island by Magdalena Wozniak
After several years of absence from fieldwork on Sai Island, an opportunity appeared in June to resume some sort of work in the form of a reconnaissance trip and the writing of a report on the conditions of the site, … Continue reading
Past days, past dams
Friday was a blessed day indeed: on the one hand the “opening” of the holy month of Ramadan and on the other the day that the Greek Orthodox Christianity venerates Prophet Elijah. The cult places of prophitis Ilias in Greece … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, christianity, Fourth Cataract, Maya Dam, Sai Island, the Nile
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Cultivating the desert
The previous entry concerned desertification, so this entry will focus on the opposite – fields in the desert. Last year, Zaccaria, the guard of the site that we excavate on Sai Island, told us that he had travelled 270 kilometres … Continue reading
Medieval Sai Project 