Egypt
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- Daily Photo By Bob Partridge (ancient Egypt Magazine)
Kiosk of Qertassi at New Kalabsha Ptolemaic period Click image to see a bigger version of the image I was at New Kalabsha in March 2007. The Lake Nasser sites have some very good memories for me and it is a pleasure to see them through Bob's very...
- Daily Photo - Sahara Satellite Image
A gorgeous photograph of the Sahara desert. Click on the image to go to the Wikipedia version, where you can see the full sized image and zoom in on certain areas. The Nile is a great green snake to the east, and the Saharan highland zones stand out particularly...
- Nubians Push For A Return To Their Drowned Homeland
International Herald Tribune Singing songs and chatting in an ancient language, hundreds of cheerful Nubian travelers gathered at the Alexandria railway station for a long pilgrimage to a lost homeland. Exiles in their own country, they journeyed 18 hours...
- Daily Photo - Last Set Of Satellite Photos
And yet more. I am rather partial to satellite views. These are from The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth website. The last lot, I promise! Click on the link beneath the image to go to the page where the full sized image is shown, together with...
- Daily Photo - Visible Earth
Staying with the theme of satellite imagery, today's photographs are taken from NASA's Visible Earth website. Each of the links under the photo takes you to a page of explanatory text about the image, and you can view the same image in different...
Egypt
NASA MODIS Image of the Day: River Nile
SpaceRefClick on the small image, right, to go to the page where the full sized photograph can be seen.
Most views of Egypt show the famous Nile River Delta, so it is interesting to see this view of the southern part of Egypt.
At the top left of the image is a reservoir that was created when the Aswan Dam was built over the Nile between 1958-1970.
The majority of the lake lies in Egypt and is called Lake Nasser. Because the border between Egypt and Sudan runs through southern part of this lake, a small tip of it belongs to Sudan and is known as Lake Nubia. A great deal of Sudan is visible in this image, from the dry northern Nubian desert to the southern part of the country which contains green swamps and rain forest. The Red Sea is the body of water on the right, with Saudi Arabia located to the east. This image was captured by the MODIS on the Terra satellite on September 27, 2008.
- Daily Photo By Bob Partridge (ancient Egypt Magazine)
Kiosk of Qertassi at New Kalabsha Ptolemaic period Click image to see a bigger version of the image I was at New Kalabsha in March 2007. The Lake Nasser sites have some very good memories for me and it is a pleasure to see them through Bob's very...
- Daily Photo - Sahara Satellite Image
A gorgeous photograph of the Sahara desert. Click on the image to go to the Wikipedia version, where you can see the full sized image and zoom in on certain areas. The Nile is a great green snake to the east, and the Saharan highland zones stand out particularly...
- Nubians Push For A Return To Their Drowned Homeland
International Herald Tribune Singing songs and chatting in an ancient language, hundreds of cheerful Nubian travelers gathered at the Alexandria railway station for a long pilgrimage to a lost homeland. Exiles in their own country, they journeyed 18 hours...
- Daily Photo - Last Set Of Satellite Photos
And yet more. I am rather partial to satellite views. These are from The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth website. The last lot, I promise! Click on the link beneath the image to go to the page where the full sized image is shown, together with...
- Daily Photo - Visible Earth
Staying with the theme of satellite imagery, today's photographs are taken from NASA's Visible Earth website. Each of the links under the photo takes you to a page of explanatory text about the image, and you can view the same image in different...