Egypt
- Drought At The End Of The Old Kingdom
Scotsman (Lyndsay Buckland) They built the iconic pyramids and the Great Sphinx of Giza, which still stand as a monument to their skills and tenacity to this day. But the fall of the great Egyptian Old Kingdom may have been helped along by a common problem...
- The Merowe Dam On The Nile
Egittologia (Amelia Carolina Sparavigna) This article is written in rather broken English (though much, much better than my Italian!) but is well worth persevering with because it makes some very important points about the way in which dam-formed lakes...
- Travel: Touring Egypt
http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2007/3/10/lifetravel/17006220&sec=lifetravel "One of the highlights is a relaxing sail on a felucca (traditional sailboat) down the Nile. The simple wooden boat uses one main sail made of cotton and...
- Nile's True Source Discovered
http://tinyurl.com/g98du (Channel 4) "A team of British-led explorers has found that the true source of the Nile is not where everyone thought it was. For centuries it had been believed that the Nile began at Lake Victoria, but this discovery has shown...
- Expedition To Trace Nile To Its Source
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3419253a12,00.html"A New Zealander leading a team of Britons through Africa says they want to make the first complete ascent of the Nile River. 'Our goal is to accurately measure the length of the Nile to its longest...
Egypt
Book Review: Explorers of the Nile
History Today (Review by Andrew Lycett)
Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure by Tim Jeal
Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure by Tim Jeal
It is more than 50 years since Alan Moorehead wrote The White Nile, his magisterial study of efforts to find the source of the great river that rises in the lakes of central Africa and flows down through the swamps of southern Sudan to bring life to the cotton fields of Egypt, before reaching the Mediterranean.
Having written biographies of David Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley, two of the quintet of great Victorian explorers of the Nile (the others being John Hanning Speke, Richard Burton and Samuel Baker), Tim Jeal is well placed to bring this story up to date.
While mindful of some of the absurdities and cruelties of their missions, Jeal is refreshingly sympathetic to the anti-slavery ideals of men such as Livingstone, as well as to the old-fashioned romanticism of Burton and Speke – before such qualities were overtaken by more political and commercial considerations in the age of late Victorian imperialism.
- Drought At The End Of The Old Kingdom
Scotsman (Lyndsay Buckland) They built the iconic pyramids and the Great Sphinx of Giza, which still stand as a monument to their skills and tenacity to this day. But the fall of the great Egyptian Old Kingdom may have been helped along by a common problem...
- The Merowe Dam On The Nile
Egittologia (Amelia Carolina Sparavigna) This article is written in rather broken English (though much, much better than my Italian!) but is well worth persevering with because it makes some very important points about the way in which dam-formed lakes...
- Travel: Touring Egypt
http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2007/3/10/lifetravel/17006220&sec=lifetravel "One of the highlights is a relaxing sail on a felucca (traditional sailboat) down the Nile. The simple wooden boat uses one main sail made of cotton and...
- Nile's True Source Discovered
http://tinyurl.com/g98du (Channel 4) "A team of British-led explorers has found that the true source of the Nile is not where everyone thought it was. For centuries it had been believed that the Nile began at Lake Victoria, but this discovery has shown...
- Expedition To Trace Nile To Its Source
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3419253a12,00.html"A New Zealander leading a team of Britons through Africa says they want to make the first complete ascent of the Nile River. 'Our goal is to accurately measure the length of the Nile to its longest...