Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime.

I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let

you get some sleep.

So find a comfortable spot, adjust your volume, take a nice deep breath in, let it out slowly,

and off we go

This evening we're relaxing with the first in a series of sequels Let's return to the manual of Egyptian archaeology and guide to the study

of Antiquities in Egypt for the use of students and travelers by Gaston Camille Charles

Maspero D.C.L. Oxford.

Member of the Institute of France.

Professor at the College of France,

ex-director-general of Egyptian museums, translated by Amelia B Edwards, new addition, revised and enlarged by the author, with 309 illustrations, published in

1895. in 1895. Let's pick up where we left off in Chapter 1.

Section 3 Public Works

A permanent network of roads would be useless in a country like Egypt.

The Nile here is the natural highway for purposes of commerce,

and the pathways which intersect the fields suffice for foot passengers, for cattle, and for the transport of goods from village to village.

Ferry boats for crossing the river, fords wherever the canals were shallow enough, and embanked dams thrown up here and there where the water was too deep for

fordings, completed the system of internal communication.

Bridges were rare.

Up to the present time, we know of but one in the whole territory of ancient Egypt, and whether that one was long or short,

built of stone or of wood, supported on arches or boldly flung across the stream from bank to bank, we cannot even conjecture.

This bridge, close under the very walls of Zaru, crossed the canal which separated the

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