Abed Elrahim was born in the small village of Tangassi El-soeq in Northern, Sudan, close to Meroë town (which is different from the historical Meroë).
He had in the meantime published (1822), in conjunction with the Rev. Barnard Hanbury, his Journal of a Visit to some parts of Ethiopia, describing a journey from Wadi Halfa to Meroë and back.
The attempt failed when the Abbas ran aground somewhere between Abu Hamad and Meroë.
Meroitic is an adjective referring to things related to the kingdom of Meroë in pre-Islamic Sudan.
Meroe or Meroë, a town downstream from the bend between the north and south flowing reaches of the Nile between the 3rd and 4th Cataracts, in the Sudan, that is the site of over 200 pyramids,
According to "Dark Star Safari" by Paul Theroux, Ferlini dynamited the tops of many of the Meroë pyramids, marring the formerly pristine relics and making off with the artifacts.
This species of cotton was also introduced into East Africa and was grown by the Meroe civilization in Nubia.
She has, to date, one published children's novel, Quicksilver, which explores the themes of leylines, stone circles and ancient holy sites such as Stonehenge in England, Meroe in Sudan and Mount Shasta in the United States.