From Flickr: “Deir el Bahri, Excavations in progress, 1893” by The Egypt Exploration Society

"Howard Carter is seen here supervising a group of workmen moving material cleared from the temple site in one of the Decauville cars which Naville borrowed from the Service des Antiquities along with 460 metres of tramway." – taken from ‘Deir el-Bahari’ by T G H James in The EES: the early years (http://ift.tt/1JX5qEQ…).

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