The Nile, Egypt’s “river of life,” irrigates a narrow strip of the country’s vast desert that flanks the river for 1000 kilometres from Aswan to the Mediterranean Sea. The river also flows through a region rich in history, carrying thousands of tourists each year on cruise-boats through the cradle of civilisation; to eras reaching back 3000 years before the birth of Christ. These photographs were taken recently during a Sheraton cruise from Luxor (formerly the ancient city of Thebes), 800 kilometres from Cairo, to Aswan. TOP LEFT: Donkey traffic on the road that leads from the west bank of the
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Press, 9 August 1985, Page 17
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100The Nile, Egypt’s “river of life,” irrigates a narrow strip of the country’s vast desert that flanks the river for 1000 kilometres from Aswan to the Mediterranean Sea. The river also flows through a region rich in history, carrying thousands of tourists each year on cruise-boats through the cradle of civilisation; to eras reaching back 3000 years before the birth of Christ. These photographs were taken recently during a Sheraton cruise from Luxor (formerly the ancient city of Thebes), 800 kilometres from Cairo, to Aswan. TOP LEFT: Donkey traffic on the road that leads from the west bank of the Press, 9 August 1985, Page 17
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