Stoned in the Eastern Desert
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2002/610/trav2.htmRomans would go to any lengths to keep the empire's subversive elements out of the way, even cutting 30-meter granite columns on a mountain, reports Jenny Jobbins in Al-Ahram Weekly.
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