Margaret Benson (1865-1916), a brilliant scholar, found an escape from her conventional life when she was granted permission to excavate in Egypt in 1895. She and her close friend Janet Gourlay (1863-1912) published this account of their discoveries at the temple of Mut at Karnak in 1899.

An 1899 account of the excavations by two British women at the ancient temple of Mut at Karnak, Egypt.