Abiy Ahmed says Ethiopia remains ready and willing to engage constructively with the ...

Reaffirms regional peace, energy goalsPrime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) has officially invited Nile River basin countries including Egypt and Sudan to attend the inauguration of the Abbay Dam scheduled ...

Tourism, climate change, redevelopment and nature threaten the existence of some of the world’s most amazing sites, but – ...

An air-conditioned hotel was built at Aswan to handle the traffic; an Aswan-Abu Simbel service went into operation with hydrofoil launches, one of which sank this spring, drowning two Frenchwomen.

August 5 will see our group exploring the Aswan High Dam and the Temple of Philae before we disembark and travel to Aswan Airport for our flight to Cairo.

Jo Kessel boards TUI's new river cruise ship, the 141-passenger, adult-only Al Horeya for a seven-night, round-trip voyage from Luxor. A visit to Tutankhamun's tomb is one of several highlights.

Impressively, the entire temple has been rebuilt, having been painstakingly moved from its original location — Philae Island — due to flooding, reopening in 1980.

The Philae Temple, also known as the Temple of Isis, on Agilika Island. Getty Images You’ll glide past hundreds of grassy isles – some grazed by oxen and donkeys. But in Aswan city, where ...

The enormous Aswan dam, a much more recent marvel of epic proportions, created the vast Lake Nasser, necessitating the relocation of 22 temples and 100,000 villagers.

The most famous of the monuments affected by the Aswan High Dam Project was the temple complex on the island of Philae. Sacred to the goddess Isis, the sanctuary dates mostly to the Graeco-Roman ...

Al Horeya stays overnight in Aswan and another ship Egyptologist, Tam, took a morning tour (£74) to the 2.4-mile wide Aswan High Dam, at the time of its opening in 1970 the largest in the world ...

The sole caretaker of the pyramids at Meroë, a former capital of the ancient Kingdom of Kush, is the only person standing between some of Sudan’s greatest art treasures and rampaging armies ...