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"Problems of the Libyan Desert" by John Ball is a scientific publication written in the early 20th century. It synthesizes exploration, surveying, and geology to explain the Libyan Desert’s great depressions, artesian waters, dunes, and rumored “lost” oases, while evaluating whether basins like Qattara and Wadi Rayan could be harnessed for irrigation, drainage, or power. The work also challenges persistent myths—most notably that a former Nile branch crossed the western desert—by using new contour mapping and hydrological reasoning. The opening of the work lays out a dozen central questions about the region and explains how recent triangulation and improved barometric leveling enabled a first, provisional contoured map. It lists a chain of sub‑sea‑level basins culminating in the vast, newly confirmed Qattara Depression, outlines the major escarpments and highlands (Gilf Kebir, Oweinat, Kissu), and uses these data to dismiss the old “dry river” idea of a Nile branch to the Mediterranea
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