A Description of the First or Aswan, Cataract of the Nile. By Dr. John Ball. Pp. 121; with 13 maps and plates, and 20 illustrations in the text. (Cairo: National Printing Department, 1907.) ...

The best part of Egypt's past, though, is arguably the immense quantity of ancient sites that have survived to this day.

NILE ENGINEERING. Share full article. Oct. 16, 1904. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from October 16, 1904, Page 8 Buy Reprints. View on timesmachine.

A 600-mile-long network of stone walls along the Nile served as an ancient water management system. Skip to main content. ... to the fourth cataract, in what is now Sudan. To study the groynes, ...

up the nile cataracts; fresh obstacles for the british expedition.a break down in the transport service causing fresh delay--el mahdi's forces fighting over booty.

THE Department of Public Works in Egypt has long been engaged on plans for dams on the Nile to improve the irrigation. Having lately learnt that the vast energy now wasted in the rapids, generally ...

Like Mena House, the Cataract is one of Egypt’s most storied hotels, best known as the place where Agatha Christie wrote Death on the Nile. Christie could write a novel in 12 weeks but stayed at ...

THE NILE : THE LIFE STORY OF A RIVER —Emil Ludwig—Viking ($5). Emil Ludwig has written 13 biographies. Each of them, winding somehow safe to the last page, made him think of a river. And ...

A vast number of stone walls spread across more than 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) of the Nile River were constructed over a period of 3,000 years and "functioned as flood and flow control structures," ...