Egypt
- Beyond The Nile Cruise
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/14/AR2005101400882.htmlAn article about visiting Egypt as a tourist: "It may be some sort of mummy's curse. Nearly all of us who visit Egypt will find ourselves on a Nile cruise. But it...
- Sites Just Clinging To Existance
http://tinyurl.com/b6dv5 An LA Times article which provides a short listing with brief descriptions of sites that they consider to be in danger, including the West Bank tombs: "What's at risk: West Bank of the Nile River, Luxor, Egypt. Archeological...
- Discussion Of The Story Of Cleopatra's Death
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2099-1362193,00.html A lengthy article discussing the myths surrounding Cleopatra VII and in particular her death by the bite of an asp. It is easiest to read in "print" format, but if choose to read it as it is...
- Security And Tourism In Egypt - An American Perspective
http://www.projo.com/travel/content/projo_20040613_egypt.1a9b01.html N.B. - you have to register with this site, and it will ask you for an email address and password when you revisit. It is an article about an American visiting Egypt, the security precautions...
- The Splendour That Was Egypt
Margaret A. Murray Sidgwick; Jackson London 1977 Reprint ISBN: 0 283 97892 9 This sixty year old book is hopefully just what I needed to forget the last book I read, though the chronology is off with dates of the Middle Kingdom as an example being more...
Egypt
Passage through antiquity
http://www.boston.com/travel/articles/2005/09/25/passage_through_antiquity/
A four-page description of a cruise down the Nile, with evocative accounts of sights both modern and ancient, giving a sense of what it is like to see the archaeology in geographical order: "Because the riverboats follow the course of the Nile, the visitor must be prepared to bounce back and forth through the centuries, and indeed the millennia, as if transported by an off-kilter time machine. It is not feasible to tour the sites in chronological sequence, and it is therefore virtually impossible for the uninitiated to keep the gods, kings, and periods straight". Note: You can only read the first three pages before being invited to register to the Boston Globe website. I liked the article, and would have liked to have read the last page, but not enough to register to a site I'll probably never need to visit again.
19:07, 25th Setpember: Kat - thanks for sending me the last page! It was great to read the full thing. You're a star.
- Beyond The Nile Cruise
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/14/AR2005101400882.htmlAn article about visiting Egypt as a tourist: "It may be some sort of mummy's curse. Nearly all of us who visit Egypt will find ourselves on a Nile cruise. But it...
- Sites Just Clinging To Existance
http://tinyurl.com/b6dv5 An LA Times article which provides a short listing with brief descriptions of sites that they consider to be in danger, including the West Bank tombs: "What's at risk: West Bank of the Nile River, Luxor, Egypt. Archeological...
- Discussion Of The Story Of Cleopatra's Death
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2099-1362193,00.html A lengthy article discussing the myths surrounding Cleopatra VII and in particular her death by the bite of an asp. It is easiest to read in "print" format, but if choose to read it as it is...
- Security And Tourism In Egypt - An American Perspective
http://www.projo.com/travel/content/projo_20040613_egypt.1a9b01.html N.B. - you have to register with this site, and it will ask you for an email address and password when you revisit. It is an article about an American visiting Egypt, the security precautions...
- The Splendour That Was Egypt
Margaret A. Murray Sidgwick; Jackson London 1977 Reprint ISBN: 0 283 97892 9 This sixty year old book is hopefully just what I needed to forget the last book I read, though the chronology is off with dates of the Middle Kingdom as an example being more...