North Kharga Oasis Survey

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Aerial picture of Umm el-Dabadib. When Corinna Rossi, a fellow in Egyptology at the University of Cambridge, first saw Umm el-Dabadib as a tourist in 1996 she was inspired to begin a survey of the archaeological sites in the North Kharga Oasis.

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—Photograph by Richard Knisely-Marpole, courtesy North Kharga Oasis Survey
 

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