Egypt
http://tinyurl.com/g98du (Channel 4)
- 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 It is more than 50 years since Alan Moorehead wrote The White Nile, his magisterial study of efforts to find the source of...
- 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...
- Travel: The Complete Guide To Nile Journeys
The Independent on Sunday (David Else)Picture a map of Africa, and divide it in four. The top right-hand bit – the north-eastern quadrant, for the geographically minded – is dominated by the Nile. It has two main tributaries: the White Nile, flowing...
- Travel: Giza To Aswan
http://living.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1897942006A better than usual travel piece about visiting Egypt and what to expect at different sites, from a writer who took the time in advance to read up about the sites he was to visit. He considers in brief...
- A Spinning Statue
This video is about a 10" statue of an Egyptian nobleman of Egypt's Third Intermediatte Period named Neb-Sanu which is moving on its own in the Manchester museum. Cute! Source...
Egypt
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 the great river's source stretches 66 miles beyond that."
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- 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 It is more than 50 years since Alan Moorehead wrote The White Nile, his magisterial study of efforts to find the source of...
- 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...
- Travel: The Complete Guide To Nile Journeys
The Independent on Sunday (David Else)Picture a map of Africa, and divide it in four. The top right-hand bit – the north-eastern quadrant, for the geographically minded – is dominated by the Nile. It has two main tributaries: the White Nile, flowing...
- Travel: Giza To Aswan
http://living.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1897942006A better than usual travel piece about visiting Egypt and what to expect at different sites, from a writer who took the time in advance to read up about the sites he was to visit. He considers in brief...
- A Spinning Statue
This video is about a 10" statue of an Egyptian nobleman of Egypt's Third Intermediatte Period named Neb-Sanu which is moving on its own in the Manchester museum. Cute! Source...