The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-07-08
Dead cities of the rayum.


They are dead absolutely, nor shrunK
to villages like Memphis and Thebes'
but as utterly lifeless as the desert |
which embraces them now. The sown |
land on whose outermost fringe they
| lay has shrunk within its ancient linz
its and left their streets and squares
and roohess houses to be lost under
drifts of sand
| The fact of their entire isolation and
one further fact make the mounds
round the edges of the Fayum singu-
larly worth exploring, even as sites go
! in the basin of the Nile. They have
not, indeed, to show the remains of
great cities which had more than To-
cal fame, but of little centers of life in
| the richest province of Greek and Ro-
man Egypt-small brick towns perched
on slight eminences above those broad
arabic fields and marshes, stocked with
cattle, which the papyrus tax receipts
show to have yielded so much to the
imperial revenue. Trade of a sort
passed through them, when the mer-
| l,A
| home capital, Arsinoe- Crocodilopolis,
and the Gases, and also they came in
time to be something of health resorts;
for when 1t was June in the Nile val
ley, and the river had become low and
foul, the great sheet of Lake Moeris
lay broad as ever in the view of these
towns, and the winds of the Libyan
desert came across it's cool waters
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