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Antiquities Arab arch architect architecture artificial lake artistic asked Aswan badana beautiful bilharzia birkas brickmakers built Cairo Cairo University canal centre cercaria classrooms concrete contractor cooperative Cost of bricks Cost of mortar course courtyard cracks Crafts School craftsmen cu.m damp-proof course Decauville Deir el Medina Department dike dome earth Egyptian ekistic engineering expensive fact Gedida give hammam houses iwans khan labour living loggia lorries Luxor madyafa Mahmoud masons master-mason materials method metres Ministry mosque moulding mud-brick Nubia Old Gourna once P.T. Cost peasant plaster population problem produce programme pump quarries roof round rural sand Sheikh skill social soil span square squinches stone straw street tion tombs Total town trade tradition Upper Egypt vault village wage walls wanted whole workmen