#egyptologyvslockdsown day 30: Dush. Our last day folks… Taking its name from the nearby village, this Roman fort is built on an earlier, Ptolemaic, or possibly even Persian, enclosure. The fort is surrounded by the town of Kysis and lies next to a temple built in stone by the Emperor Domitian, enlarged by Trajan and decorated by Hadrian. Its hieroglyphic inscriptions suggest it was dedicated to Osiris, but Greek additions suggest it to came to be used for the worship of Serapis (an Egyptian-Greek hybrid of Osiris, Apis and Zeus) and Isis. A cache of gold and other precious items was found here by French excavators in 1989. The hilltop site commands perhaps the finest views across the desert plains we have seen on this trip - and they won’t have changed since Roman soldiers were stationed here - and the grey skies when I was there only made them more dramatic. These are some of my favourite photos… We finish the day in Luxor where we conclude our trip. The penultimate image shows the full extent of our journey (thanks Google Maps!) - 30 days through the Delta and Deserts, to add to 50 in the Nile Valley last year, all in all 80 Days Around Egypt & Sudan. Thanks for coming along! Time for a beer as the sun goes down…