Egypt
- Travel: Khawaja Kwais
canada.com (Anne Wood) It is a slow news day so here's something a bit different. Even though this isn't strictly speaking Egyptology, it is certainly travel of a somewhat unconventional sort and it is very engaging. Over five pages Ann Wood describes...
- More On Amazon Longer Than Nile
Scientific American A second expedition set for September—the beginning of the dry season—will confirm whether water flows year-round, but such measurements are inherently subjective. "We take the longest, straightest tributary," explains Jennifer...
- Hungarian Team To Excavate In Nile Delta
http://english.mti.hu/default.asp?menu=1&theme=2&cat=25&newsid=237778"A team of ten Hungarian archeologists will soon begin excavations at two sites in northern Egypt's Nile river delta, the head of the expedition told MTI on Tuesday. Commissioned...
- Down The Big River
http://www.geographical.co.uk/Geographical Magazine's January 2007 issue is featuring an article about the Nile: Down the big river"Winding some 6,695 kilometres from the heart of Africa to the Mediterranean Sea, the River Nile is the world's...
- 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...
Egypt
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 source,' New Zealander and team co-leader Cam McLeay said. 'There's been a lot of debate over the last several hundred years about the source of the Nile'. The five men and one woman started their journey today at Rosetta near the city of Alexandria on Egypt's Mediterranean coast, and are in Cairo on their way to Rwanda, where they believe the ultimate source of the Nile lies , the Egyptian Gazette newspaper reports. The paper quoted the British Embassy in Cairo as saying that the team has entered the Nile, stretching for 6695km, at its mouth to the sea and the journey up the river to its longest source in Rwanda is expected to complete by late December. The expedition is the first ever ascent of the world's longest river, the embassy said in a press release. The whole expedition will be tracked by satellites on the dedicated website The expedition will follow the Nile, the world's longest river, through Egypt, Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and possibly Burundi". See the above URL for more.
The expedition's website is at: http://www.ascendthenile.com/
- Travel: Khawaja Kwais
canada.com (Anne Wood) It is a slow news day so here's something a bit different. Even though this isn't strictly speaking Egyptology, it is certainly travel of a somewhat unconventional sort and it is very engaging. Over five pages Ann Wood describes...
- More On Amazon Longer Than Nile
Scientific American A second expedition set for September—the beginning of the dry season—will confirm whether water flows year-round, but such measurements are inherently subjective. "We take the longest, straightest tributary," explains Jennifer...
- Hungarian Team To Excavate In Nile Delta
http://english.mti.hu/default.asp?menu=1&theme=2&cat=25&newsid=237778"A team of ten Hungarian archeologists will soon begin excavations at two sites in northern Egypt's Nile river delta, the head of the expedition told MTI on Tuesday. Commissioned...
- Down The Big River
http://www.geographical.co.uk/Geographical Magazine's January 2007 issue is featuring an article about the Nile: Down the big river"Winding some 6,695 kilometres from the heart of Africa to the Mediterranean Sea, the River Nile is the world's...
- 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...