This image was scanned from The Lost Oasis by Ahmed Hussanein Bey. Printed in facsimile copy right 2006 by The American University in Cairo. ISBN 977 424 908 1 Originally published in 1925 by Thornton Butterworth London. Used with out permission in the interest of education.
The image possibly by Hussanein Bey of the Shali was most probably taken in late 1923 early 1924. Compare with the following image taken some two hundred metres right showing the present condition of the ancient town .