On the orientation of the pyramids and temples in the Sûdân

Abstract

In the year 1897 I was sent on a mission to the Sûdân by the Trustees of the British Museum, and in 1898 I was again sent to that country to complete the work in the places which I could not reach the year before on account of the unsettled state of that unhappy land. By the favour of Viscount Cromer and Lord Kitchener, the Sirdar of the Egyptian army, I was enabled to visit sites which had not been visited by Europeans for a great many years, and, by the unusual facilities which these gentlemen afforded me, to make notes on matters of scientific interest which have, in recent years, been widely dis­cussed.