A team of archaeologists just found large-scale inscriptions dedicated to pharaohs including Thutmose IV and Amenhotep III during an underwater survey of the Nile River in Aswan. The discovery was ...

The White Nile begins even before Lake Victoria ... One big shift came in 1970 with the completion of the Aswan High Dam, which impounds the river in southern Egypt to create a reservoir called ...

This rich dark sediment that was once swept along the river's bed has struggled to get beyond southern Egypt since the Aswan dam was built in the 1960s to regulate the Nile's floods. Before its ...

I’m on board the Sanctuary Sun Boat IV, a luxury 1920s-style vessel, travelling along Egypt’s bloodline, the Nile. A calm reprieve ... As we approach the Aswan Low Dam, on whose reservoir ...

Interrogated by the Gestapo, she scolded them for their poor manners and even cursed them before they ... along the Nile from the rising waters created by the Aswan Dam in the 1960s.

The first of the six starts at the city of Aswan, which was the ancient Egyptian city of Swenett, and is located sporadically down the length of the Nile before Khartoum. Below this first cataract ...

To learn about the pharaohs and their gods, and how ancient civilizations were shaped by the Nile River ... moved during the construction of the Aswan Dam. Don’t choose the Sphinx — or ...

There’s so much to absorb I’d recommend swotting up a little on ancient Egypt before your trip ... the construction of the first Aswan dam in 1902. Nile crocodiles have been feared and ...