Sailing on the Nile “Egypt was”, Greek historian Herodotus famously said some 2000 years ago, “the gift of the Nile”. The river has been the lifeline of Egypt’s ancient civilization since the Stone Age. Around that time people had settled along the Nile valley lying north of Aswan. They cultivated wheat, barley, grapes, dates and melon in abundance on the riverbanks’ alluvial...
by aniruddha at April 27th, 2010 at 12:04 am