Egypt
- Travel: Reflections In The Nile
Reflections in the Nile blog Su Bayfield has been updating her blog recently with items from journals she has kept of her many visits to Egypt, creating an eclectic mix of photographs, insights and anecdotes. Very enjoyable. Here's a sample from...
- Travel: Falling For Egypt
Guardian Unlimited - four page version Guardian Unlimited Print version (Lynn Barber) After Cairo, which is hard work with all the fumes and traffic jams, Luxor and Aswan are pure pleasure. Aswan in the far south is where Egypt suddenly feels like Africa...
- Ancient Egyptian Flood Prevention At Karnak Temple
http://www.dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=6798"Remains of an ancient Egyptian wall used to prevent the leakage of the Nile flood waters from spreading over the Karnak temple in Luxor were discovered on Thursday at the temple's eastern side,...
- Water Damage To Nile Monuments
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=6795An article looking at dangers to Egyptian monuments - from the recent Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa fatwa to the damage caused to Luxor sites by irrigation: "The tourist industry is Egypt’s largest source...
- The Nile Valley - Where Ancient Meets Modern
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3358004a2180,00.html An article looking at the value of the Nile to Egypt, ancient and modern, and contrasting the natural flooding of the Valley in days before large-scale damming projects began, with life since the...
Egypt
Filming the source of the Nile
http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200603/the.last.nile.flood.htm
Thanks very much to Geoffrey Tassie from the Egypt Cultural Heritage Organization (ECHO) for the following story, which charts the journey of a documentary film crew to the source of the Nile in 1964: "In June 1964, I and my four-man Egyptian film crew set out from Cairo to capture on film the very last Nile flood that would come to Egypt. From the moment the flood began in Ethiopia, we followed its progress for 3200 kilometers (2000 mi). This had never been done before, and the CinemaScope feature documentary we produced, 'Fountains of the Sun,' became the only filmed record ever made of this momentous event. We left an Egypt blistering in the summer sun, every city, town and village anxiously awaiting the last flood of all. In the sultry heat of Aswan, thousands of sweating workers toiled day and night, hurrying to complete six giant tunnels in time to carry the coming flood safely past the unfinished Aswan High Dam."
Originally in pages 24-33 of the May/June 2006 print edition of Saudi Aramco World.
Thanks very much to Geoffrey Tassie from the Egypt Cultural Heritage Organization (ECHO) for the following story, which charts the journey of a documentary film crew to the source of the Nile in 1964: "In June 1964, I and my four-man Egyptian film crew set out from Cairo to capture on film the very last Nile flood that would come to Egypt. From the moment the flood began in Ethiopia, we followed its progress for 3200 kilometers (2000 mi). This had never been done before, and the CinemaScope feature documentary we produced, 'Fountains of the Sun,' became the only filmed record ever made of this momentous event. We left an Egypt blistering in the summer sun, every city, town and village anxiously awaiting the last flood of all. In the sultry heat of Aswan, thousands of sweating workers toiled day and night, hurrying to complete six giant tunnels in time to carry the coming flood safely past the unfinished Aswan High Dam."
Originally in pages 24-33 of the May/June 2006 print edition of Saudi Aramco World.
- Travel: Reflections In The Nile
Reflections in the Nile blog Su Bayfield has been updating her blog recently with items from journals she has kept of her many visits to Egypt, creating an eclectic mix of photographs, insights and anecdotes. Very enjoyable. Here's a sample from...
- Travel: Falling For Egypt
Guardian Unlimited - four page version Guardian Unlimited Print version (Lynn Barber) After Cairo, which is hard work with all the fumes and traffic jams, Luxor and Aswan are pure pleasure. Aswan in the far south is where Egypt suddenly feels like Africa...
- Ancient Egyptian Flood Prevention At Karnak Temple
http://www.dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=6798"Remains of an ancient Egyptian wall used to prevent the leakage of the Nile flood waters from spreading over the Karnak temple in Luxor were discovered on Thursday at the temple's eastern side,...
- Water Damage To Nile Monuments
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=6795An article looking at dangers to Egyptian monuments - from the recent Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa fatwa to the damage caused to Luxor sites by irrigation: "The tourist industry is Egypt’s largest source...
- The Nile Valley - Where Ancient Meets Modern
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3358004a2180,00.html An article looking at the value of the Nile to Egypt, ancient and modern, and contrasting the natural flooding of the Valley in days before large-scale damming projects began, with life since the...