Egypt’s Great Pyramid and other ancient monuments at Giza exist on an isolated strip of land at the edge of the Sahara ... first map of the long-lost ancient branch of the Nile River.” ...

ogle the palm-fringed river or ask an Egyptologist to write your name as a hieroglyphic. In contrast to the rest of Egypt (96.5 per cent of the country is desert), the Nile and its surrounds are ...