Here's something that might surprise you: ancient Egyptians called the river "Ar" or "Aur," meaning "black," a reference to the rich, dark sediment that the Nile's waters carried from the Horn of ...

Archaeologists and toxicologists are revisiting a provocative idea about life along the Nile: that ancient Egyptians may have incorporated opium into daily and ritual practice far more routinely than ...

If ancient wonders, mysterious temples and the steady flow of the Nile River are calling, a cruise on Egypt's most famous ...

"Originally published by Bloomsbury, London, in 2014." It was Herodotus who first called Egypt "the gift of the river." Now renowned Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson takes us along the Nile to reveal how ...

My ship is the newly-launched 146-passenger Bahareya (which means “belongs to the river” in Arabic) and is TUI River Cruises’ second Nile vessel. Starting in Luxor and making stops in Kom Ombo, Aswan ...

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