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Remember Death On the Nile, one of Agatha Christie's most famous novels made into a film filled with celebrities? Much of that novel was written while Agatha Christie stayed in the Old Cataract Hotel on the Nile in Aswan, Egypt's southernmost city...
An Egyptian security official says police have arrested 109 African migrants hoping to cross illegally into Israel from Egypt. ... The official says 95 migrants from Eritrea and 14 from Ethiopia were caught Wednesday in the city of Aswan, 685 kilometers (425 miles) south...
Source: http://weekly.ahram.org.eg (4-17-08)Artefacts immersed in the Nile at Aswan and a 19th-Dynasty funerary collection in Luxor are the most recent discoveries in Egypt, as Nevine El-Aref reports. *** It is surely in the quiet and relaxing city of Aswan that the Nile is at its most beautiful....
Artefacts immersed in the Nile at Aswan and a 19th-Dynasty funerary collection in Luxor are the most recent discoveries in Egypt, as Nevine El-Aref reports Quartzite ushabti figure (above); some of the artefacts that were for long on the Nile bed It is surely in the quiet...
Journal: Friday 22 October 1999 The 7.00am bus to Aswan was a big mistake. Jenny and I had shunned the ... Journal: Friday 22 October 1999 The 7.00am bus to Aswan was a big mistake. The bus was quite full when it set off and making ourselves comfortable among the Egyptian...
(photos to follow separately, when I have time to upload them) So... Just over two weeks ago, I met my parents in Cairo - they had gotten off a long-haul flight that went from Brisbane to Singapore to Abu Dhabi (where they stayed overnight for about 9 hours) to Cairo. My...
Cairo After a long flight we arrived a day early in Cairo, and had time to spend walking along the Corniche, as most of Cairo's residents seem to do in the evening or take a sunset felucca ride for some very different views of the city. We visited the peace and quiet of the oldest part of Cairo,...
You might not know it, but Egypt was a paragon of technical progress in the nineteenth century. They were the ... You might not know it, but Egypt was a paragon of technical progress in the nineteenth century. Before France, the United States, and only briefly after...
In summer 2004 Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts announced the take over of a resort on the Elephantine Island near Aswan. The extensive renovation and extension work is just about to be completed. ... In summer 2004 Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts announced the take over of a resort...
A few folks have asked why there've been so few posts recently. And the answer to that is: I spent the first two weeks of the month getting my ducks in a row so I could accompany Mom and the... ... A few folks have asked why there've been so few posts recently. And the...
