Alphabet Geography: egypt

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Sunday, June 1, 2008

86 - Faiyûm, Egypt

District on the Nile containing the below-sea-level Birket Qârûn. I'm guessing this system of dikes and pools is some sort of salt-making scheme ...

Saturday, May 31, 2008

85 - El Minya, Egypt

150mi. upstream from Cairo. The Codex Tchacos, including the recently famous Gospel of Judas, was found by a "treasure-hunter" near El-Minya in the 1970s.

Monday, February 4, 2008

86 - Umm Bugma, Egypt

In SW Sinai. Site of a manganese mine and, apparently, not much else man-made.

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Sunday, February 3, 2008

85 - Tanta, Egypt

In the very center of the Nile delta. A cotton milling town, 36 feet above sea level.

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A Word of Explanation

I keep a 1977 London Times Atlas open on my bedroom dresser. Every morning, as part of my getting-ready ritual, I flip the page to see the next map-plate, and play a little game, scanning the map to find a city or other feature that starts with a letter of the alphabet. I jot it down in my little notebook. The next day, I turn the page and set about finding something that starts with the next letter. So on through the atlas, across the globe, and down the alphabet from A to Z and all over again.

Alphabet Geography