Move Over Cleopatra, There's Another Queen of the Nile...

Upper Nile

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April 23rd 2010
Ever since Grade Seven Social Studies many moons ago, the temples and monuments of Ancient Egypt have been on the radar. So up the Nile we went to see the sites around Luxor and Aswan. In this area, the barren desert is split by the Nile and sprinkled with tombs, temples and monuments dating back 4000 years. Some of these complexes have been recovered from the shifting sands, a few have been re ... read more

Africa » Egypt » Upper Egypt

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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