…as far south as Dongola, only an idiot would have assumed that travel in the region was safe.
-The Last Camel Died at Noon, Elizabeth Peters
One shouldn’t need to read mystery novels- like this one, or Michael Pearce’s Mamur Zapt and the Mouth of the Crocodile, or Agatha Christie’s Death Comes at the End- to learn about Nubia, but where else might the general public ever hear the place name Dongola, except in Little Egypt, Southern Illinois.