Sadly, we couldn’t. The centrepiece of our trip was to be a cruise down the Nile from Aswan to Luxor on the luxury river boat Oberoi Zahra. Before going aboard, though, I wanted very much to spend a ...

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 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.) ...

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," ...

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. Share full article Nov. 9, 1884 ...

Scientists tend to go by the longest continuous channel in a system, but that may still leave room for ambiguity. The Nile is only slightly longer than the Amazon River, for example, and in 2007 a ...

Matt Stirn A fort built by Ottoman forces near the Nile River’s third cataract, not far from Tombos and Kerma. Ottoman Egypt conquered much of modern Sudan in 1820, which it ruled until 1885.

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

New findings contradict previous notions about sugar's role in the onset of diabetic cataracts. Using an animal model that more closely recapitulates type 2 diabetes in humans, the research team ...

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 ...

We would see them over the course of a week aboard the 84-passenger Sphinx, one of the newest and most luxurious vessels on the river. Operated by Uniworld Boutique River Cruises, one of the best ...

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, ...