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The Egyptian city of Quseir on the western coast of the Red Sea is dominated by the minaret of a mosque. Arab merchant ships also landed here with their cargoes of spices, which were transported by dromedaries along the Wadi El-Hamrnamat to Qus on the Nile, below Luxor. There, the cargo was transferred to feluccas—the two-masted Nile boats with lateen sails still in use today—which carried the goods to Cairo and Alexandria. – 1984