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Our group decided to focus on death reports throughout the Digital Egyptian Gazette. Since this topic has already been thoroughly examined by other students in the past, we had to find something that would add new insight to how the Gazette reported upon deaths in the early 1900’s.

The government had a variety of programs to increase agriculture. One of the main crops they pushed was the production of wheat. It was a crop that was easy to multiply and produce mass amounts.

Introduction Our group is filled with many different questions with very few similarities between them all, however, after looking through what we were each using as a question and how we were researching we came to the conclusion that our group would best be summarized as one based around qualitative research.

I began the research by searching for a correlation between illnesses and patent medicine advertisements. This led me to research the types of illness the medicine advertisements claimed to cure. The final question I decided to research is: whether illnesses mentioned in the Egyptian Gazette are comparable modern illnesses of the same name.

Introduction & Research Question Before my learning in this course, the only Egyptological concept I was somewhat familiar with was that of the mummy. Mummies are the remains of humans or animals that have been preserved through specific ceremonial practices, such as removing internal organs and wrapping their bodies with bandages.

Although agriculture is important in every society, it proved especially important in Egyptian culture. With life almost being centered on the Nile, taking advantage of the annual flooding of the Nile was necessary.

In 1882, the British Empire landed troops in Egypt with backing from the Khedive, and defeated the Egyptian nationalist military. However, the army was not there to completely take over the territory as with other colonial military operations of the time period.

X-Query: //head[contains(.,'Cereals in Boat at Sahel')]/following-sibling::row[1]/cell[3]/measure For my individual research project, I decided to look at the weekly export of wheat from Sahel. Sahel is another term used to describe the north coast of Egypt, where the majority of their exports flow through into the Mediterranean.

The question our group sought to answer was how the number of mentions of diseases in the Egyptian Gazette differs according to when they were discovered. We analyzed the frequency at which 14 different diseases were mentioned in the Gazette from January 1905 to December 1907 and compared the results to how recently the disease had been discovered for the people in this time.

In preparing for my analysis project, I ran the XPath Query: //div[matches(.,'plague', 'i')]/*[not(matches(.,'cattle'))]/*[not(matches(.,'locust'))]/head This specific XPath is designed to find how often headlines containing the word “plague" are found in the Egyptian Gazette.