Scientific Exploration in Egypt

Abstract

Now that we have embarked in a war in Egypt, it is to be hoped that steps will be taken to have a proper staff of scientific explorers attached to the army with facilities for conducting their investigations. There are periods of rest in a campaign during which soldiers and others may be usefully employed in conducting excavations at comparatively slight cost; and difficulties in the way of investigation, arising from the requirements of trade and industry, disappear in time of war. The deposits of the Delta require to be examined. The gravels of the Nile Valley have to be connected with their animal remains. Much has to be done for the earliest and best period of Egyptian art, and the Stone Age of Egypt has to be fixed with certainty, the importance of which cannot be over estimated in connection with the earliest civilisation of the world.