This new stress-free, week-long cruise takes in many of Egypt's epic treasures and starts from around £1,500, with flights ...

A cruise down the Nile and a few days of discovery in Cairo prove to be the ultimate bonding experience for Steve King and ...

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 ...

I also drop by the infamous Old Cataract Hotel for a sundowner – not only is this where Princess Diana once stayed, but it’s also where Agatha Christie spent a year writing Death on the Nile.

broken by cataracts, meandering, sometimes almost lost in swamps, often muddy, often turbulent, but on the whole predictable and laden with useful silt. In the Nile’s career Ludwig sees a ...

At its height, this land would run from the sixth cataract of the Nile up to the Mediterranean, across Sinai, through Palestine and into Syria. At the head of this empire was the 18th Dynasty ...