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Lake Nasser Cruise

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October 29th 2012
<strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lake Nasser Cruise: <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Tuesday, October 23 Arrived in Aswan late last night. We visited the temple of Philae which had been moved to a different island because of the building of the High Dam. The amount of work involved moving these historic sites must have been overwhelmin ... read more

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The regularity and richness of the annual Nile River flood, coupled with semi-isolation provided by deserts to the east and west, allowed for the development of one of the world's great civilizations. A unified kingdom arose circa 3200 B.C. and a ser... ... read more