Abstract
Since 2007 the North Kharga Oasis-Darb Ain Amur Survey team, which is headed by Salima Ikram (American University in Cairo), has been discovering new sites and has been mapping a large area north of Kharga Oasis that includes several western branches of the Darb el-arba‘in, connecting Kharga to Dakhla, and eventually to Libya. One of these branches is the Darb Ain Amur (henceforth DAA), which begins roughly at the Qasr el-Lebekha and ends at the Ptolemaic temple of Ain Amur. ‘As with many other desert routes, the DAA is not a single path but rather a series of roughly parallel