Egypt
Giza Archives Project (PDF)
COUNTRY LIFE IN ANCIENT EGYPT, MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
Picture Book NO. 2
PREPARED BY DR. WILLIAM STEVENSON SM ITH, CURATOR OF EGYPTIAN ART IN THE MUSEUM
PRODUCED BY THE MERIDEN GRAVURE CO., MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT
- 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: Cruising The Royal Route Of The Pharaohs
Ottawa Citizen (Mark Angelo) As our plane approached the town of Aswan in southern Egypt, I could see the meandering Nile below. Beyond the line of the river and the green ribbon of lush irrigated lands that paralleled it, there was nothing but the vast...
- Travel: Nile Cruise
Vancouver Sun (Mark Angelo) As our plane approached the town of Aswan in southern Egypt, I could see the meandering Nile below. Beyond the line of the river and the green ribbon of lush irrigated lands that paralleled it, there was nothing but the vast...
- Environment: Western Desert Groundwater Could Last 300 Years
Egypt Daily Star News As the Arab Water Council meets today for the first Arab Region Consultative Workshop March 13-15 to prepare its research papers and regional reports for the Fifth World Water Forum in Istanbul in March 2009, many questions surround...
- Egypt Plan To Green Sahara Desert Stirs Controversy
Reuters India This is about modern Egypt, but for anyone who is interested in Egypt and her deserts, this four page article about converting the desert into land suitable agricultural use and new settlements may be of interest. With only five percent...
Egypt
Online: Country life in Ancient Egypt
Giza Archives Project (PDF)
COUNTRY LIFE IN ANCIENT EGYPT, MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
Picture Book NO. 2
PREPARED BY DR. WILLIAM STEVENSON SM ITH, CURATOR OF EGYPTIAN ART IN THE MUSEUM
PRODUCED BY THE MERIDEN GRAVURE CO., MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT
Egypt has rightly been called the gift of the Nile. In a country of little rain, the regular annual inundation of the river has produced a rich soil that made agriculture the source of the nation’s prosperity. Although great cities grew up in the narrow desertbordered valley, the Egyptian nevertheless felt himself close to the soil. The country is like no other land. Nearly always within view is the sharp contrast between the green fields and the tawny desert hills that hem in the cultivation on each side. Between summer and late autumn a sheet of water from the river-flood lay across the fields. Out of this rose the villages as though they were islands. The peasant used one word interchangeably for either field or marsh, since only for a part of the year would this be dry land. In thinking of the world after death he imagined a similar ‘Field of Reeds’ and ‘Field of Offerings’ where islands rose from a heavenly inundation for the repose of the transfigured dead.
- 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: Cruising The Royal Route Of The Pharaohs
Ottawa Citizen (Mark Angelo) As our plane approached the town of Aswan in southern Egypt, I could see the meandering Nile below. Beyond the line of the river and the green ribbon of lush irrigated lands that paralleled it, there was nothing but the vast...
- Travel: Nile Cruise
Vancouver Sun (Mark Angelo) As our plane approached the town of Aswan in southern Egypt, I could see the meandering Nile below. Beyond the line of the river and the green ribbon of lush irrigated lands that paralleled it, there was nothing but the vast...
- Environment: Western Desert Groundwater Could Last 300 Years
Egypt Daily Star News As the Arab Water Council meets today for the first Arab Region Consultative Workshop March 13-15 to prepare its research papers and regional reports for the Fifth World Water Forum in Istanbul in March 2009, many questions surround...
- Egypt Plan To Green Sahara Desert Stirs Controversy
Reuters India This is about modern Egypt, but for anyone who is interested in Egypt and her deserts, this four page article about converting the desert into land suitable agricultural use and new settlements may be of interest. With only five percent...