Sometimes X does mark the spot …

On Christmas Eve, 2010, my team and I were nearing the end of the winter season of the Moalla Survey Project (a Yale University sponsored expedition that I directed under the auspices of the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities). In preparation for surveying an area north of Moalla, I consulted a century-old article by Georg Schweinfurth, a German botanist and explorer, entitled “Die Umgegend von Schaghab und el-Kab (Ober-Ägypten).”