Philae (Island of Agilkia), Old and Middle Kingdom Tombs, Ruins of town of Elephantine, Stone quarries and obelisk, Monastery of St. Simeon, and the Islamic Cemetery. The first five component parts ...

The Archaeological Sites of the Island of Meroe, a semi-desert landscape between the Nile and Atbara rivers, was the heartland of the Kingdom of Kush, a major power from the 8th century B.C. to the ...

REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya/SUDAN/File Photo KHARTOUM, March 28 (Reuters) – Residents of Sudan’s Tuti island at the confluence of the Blue Nile and White Nile have emerged from paramilitary ...

This outstanding archaeological area contains such magnificent monuments as the Temples of Ramses II at Abu Simbel and the Sanctuary of Isis at Philae, which were saved from the rising waters of the ...

then take a motor boat to the Temple of Philae on an island. After lunch, board a felucca, a traditional Egyptian sailing boat, for a trip down the Nile and around picturesque Kitchener’s Island.

Follow along as a multinational team of archaeologists, architects, and engineers attempts to solve the mystery of how the ancients managed to carve, transport, and erect obelisks weighing many ...