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Dahabeah on the Nile, 1891. Until the 1870s the dahabiya was the standard for tourists to travel up and down the river Nile. According to Donald Reid, in 1858 "a forty-day round trip from Cairo to Luxor cost about £110; a fifty-day trip to Aswan and back, about £150". [2]
Dahab (Egyptian Arabic: دهب, IPA:, "gold") is a small Egyptian town on the southeast coast of the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, approximately 80 km (50 mi) northeast of Sharm el-Sheikh.
English: "One of the dahabeahs of Thos. Cook & Son, (Egypt) Ltd.". Printed material. Brooklyn Museum. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, N376_J95_Heliogravures_pl27_PS1.jpg) Brooklyn Museum Libraries.
French ship Saône (1798), was a dahabeah used on the Nile during the French campaign in Egypt and Syria. French corvette Saône was a corvette launched in 1826 and was renamed Agathe one year later. French ship Saône (1855), was a steam warship launched in 1855; French aviso Saône was an aviso launched in 1880
The Emersons built a house in Luxor and retain the dahabeah moored on the Nile for this dig. The children frequently stay in the dahabeah. The children frequently stay in the dahabeah. Work begins in an area in the Valley of the Kings between two numbered tombs 20 and 21; Hatshepsut 's tomb 20 has a group working under Howard Carter , whose ...
The story is set during the 1915–1916 archaeological dig season, when the Great War continues. The Emersons continue their work in Giza. Married eight months upon return to Egypt, Ramses and Nefret Emerson live in the dahabeah named Amelia on the Nile, hoping for a bit of honeymoon then checking on dig sites in Luxor.
Amelia and Ramses meet a German baroness at the missionary's Sunday service, on the arm of David Cabot. The baroness has a collection of antiquities, including a mummy case, and a lion cub on her dahabeah. The antiquities anger Emerson and the caged lion cub angers Ramses.
A retired yet vicious seller of Egyptian antiques meets them on the dahabeah. Emerson and Amelia surmise there are two groups battling to take over the thieving ring once led by Sethos. Some of these competing thieves may assist the Emerson dig, and others may try to kill them, as evidenced on New Year's Eve.