with an account, ancient and modern, of the Oasis of Amun and the other oases now under the dominion of the pasha of Egypt; with a map and twenty plates illustrating the temples, scenery, etc.
205 CHAP. XII. ANTIQUITIES OF THE OASIS. GIBEL EL MOUTA.—EX CAVATED TOMBS. MUTILATED STATUES. HIERO GLYPHICS. EGYPTIAN FIGURES. REMAINS OF MUMMIES. BARON MINUTOLI. GRECIAN AND EGYPTIAN RUINS AT ZEYTOUN. RUINS CALLED AMOUDEYN. BELED EL KAMYSEH. SEPULCHRES IN THE MOUNTAIN OF EL GAREH EL KAMYSEH. TEMPLE OF ROMAN ARCHITECTURE. CATACOMBS. SEPULCHRES AT DRAR ABOU BERYK. RUINS OF OM BEYDA. THE TEMPLE OF JUPITER' AMUN. ARCHI TECTURAL DESCRIPTION. CURIOUS SCULPTURE. FOUNTAIN OF THE SUN.—THE LAKE OF ARACHIEH. — SUPERSTITIONS. — COLONEL BOUTIN. CONQUEST OF THE OASIS. The antiquities in the Oasis of Amun are very interesting. A conical hill called Gibel el Mouta, or the mountain of the dead, about a quarter of an hour’s walk from Siwah, is full of excavated tombs; according to Mr. Browne there are more than thirty of them ; the general proportions being: length, 12 ft.; width, 6 ft.;