The Nile

The Nile

Author: Toby Wilkinson

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2014-02-13

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 1408839938

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From Herodotus's day to the present political upheavals, the steady flow of the Nile has been Egypt's heartbeat. It has shaped its geography, controlled its economy and moulded its civilisation. The same stretch of water which conveyed Pharaonic battleships, Ptolemaic grain ships, Roman troop-carriers and Victorian steamers today carries modern-day tourists past bankside settlements in which rural life – fishing, farming, flooding – continues much as it has for millennia. At this most critical juncture in the country's history, foremost Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson takes us on a journey up the Nile, north from Lake Victoria, from Cataract to Cataract, past the Aswan Dam, to the delta. The country is a palimpsest, every age has left its trace: as we pass the Nilometer on the island of Elephantine which since the days of the Pharaohs has measured the height of Nile floodwaters to predict the following season's agricultural yield and set the parameters for the entire Egyptian economy, the wonders of Giza which bear the scars of assault by nineteenth-century archaeologists and the modern-day unbridled urban expansion of Cairo – and in Egypt's earliest art (prehistoric images of fish-traps carved into cliffs) and the Arab Spring (fought on the bridges of Cairo) – the Nile is our guide to understanding the past and present of this unique, chaotic, vital, conservative yet rapidly changing land.


A Description of the First Or Aswan Cataract of the Nile (Classic Reprint)

A Description of the First Or Aswan Cataract of the Nile (Classic Reprint)

Author: John Ball

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-06-25

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 9780282644543

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Excerpt from A Description of the First or Aswan Cataract of the Nile Abundant as is the material, any attempt at a connected history of the Cataract district is beyond the scope of this memoir. The principal historical facts will however be briefly referred to in de scribing the topographical features with which they are associated, and the reader who desires further details should refer to the historical works, of which a list will be found on pp. 15 - 20. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


Ancient Egyptian Materials and Industries

Ancient Egyptian Materials and Industries

Author: A. Lucas

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-04-30

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 0486144941

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Describes ancient Egypt's vast resources and the processes that incorporated them in daily life, including animal products, building materials, cosmetics, perfumes and incense, fibers, glazed ware, glass, mummification materials, and more.