curiosities

In the Tuesday issue of ​The Egyptian Gazette​ for the week of November 18, 1907, there is a specific ad which, at first glance, I figured was for a new company providing travel by ship.

An elderly rich lady supposedly found love with a man, but her family believes he is only with her for her money. Currently she is missing along with him.

How Education in Egypt Has Changed Over Time

Dow Covington was a well-known Egyptologist active in Giza. I looked for any mention of excavations in the other blog posts, but I couldn’t find anything else on it. Previously in 1905, Covington was part of a team that was tasked with unburying part of the great sphinx, which had been partly covered over years from windblown sand.

An anonymous author loathes a book he has not read.

Investigating train accidents caused by those described as “careless“.

Mistakes were made when preparing to set fire to a mine. Two miners were killed and four of them were badly injured.

Two well-known residents of Egypt finally tied the knot. The wedding was classy and fashionable- a great occasion for all involved.

This article is about a tragedy that occurred at sea. A minister has fallen overboard, but he is not the only one.

In the early 1900’s casualties were in abundance due to a lack of understanding of the human body. Disease and illness became an everyday battle for those who had been discharged as “incurable” with no hope for a healthy life.