For centuries, the glorious works of Herodotus, the ancient Greek historian often dubbed the 'Father of History,' have ...

These are wooden sailing vessels like the one fictional detective Hercule Poirot sailed on Death On The Nile. This is a ...

The Egyptian funerary boat on display at the Ure Museum is a typical tomb offering from ancient Egypt ... a trip across their River Nile, which ran down the centre of their country, joining ...

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The Nile was Ancient Egypt's superhighway and was always busy with boats carrying people and goods back and forth to all thesettlements along the banks of the river. The reeds that lined the sides ...

A tourist ship carrying 28 tourists of various nationalities on a Nile River cruise ran aground on Saturday in Aswan Governorate, southern Upper Egypt. The Aswan Operations ... equipment to move the ...

After lunch, board a felucca, a traditional Egyptian sailing boat, for a trip down the Nile and around picturesque Kitchener’s Island. Day 5 Optional excursion by coach or air to Abu Simbel ...

(A change in the ... to the Nile, with Cairo beyond; and to the south, the Menkaure Pyramid and the vastness of the Sahara. Can you find the Solar Barque museum (see Pharaoh's Boat)?

To help put things in perspective, I invited him to join me on a trip to Egypt ... was to be a cruise down the Nile from Aswan to Luxor on the luxury river boat Oberoi Zahra.