Northeast afrika

Northeast Africa (1788 1848)

In 1788 the basic lines of the device of a surface of Northeast Africa in general were already defined, but there were still areas or nobody visited, or a little known; scientific research of this corner of Africa was in general in a germ. The first period opens V.Dzh's remarkable travel. Brown to oasis Siva (1792) and, that is even more important, to Darfur (1793). It has reached these areas, not without difficulties, usual karavannoj road from Asiuta and the same road, having hardly rescued from  destruction, has returned. During the stay in these areas he has managed to collect a lot of a valuable material, And its work has kept the authoritativeness during more than centuries.

Brown or Bruce's not individual travel (whose travel have inspired Brown), and an event in 1798 intrusion of army of Napoleon and board Mehmeda-Ali which has followed it were the Pivotal factor in opening of a valley of Nile. Frenchmen also have drawn attention of Europe to Egypt and its antiquities, and actively collected and spread geographical informations on it. Published in 1807 in Paris French ' the Atlas of Egypt ' gave full representation about Nile up to Aswan.

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