This video delves into the remarkable granite artifacts on Egypt's Elephantine Island, highlighting precision-cut surfaces and drill holes that suggest advanced stoneworking techniques beyond the ...

At Egypt’s Elephantine Island, newly examined granite artifacts reveal machining marks that some experts believe couldn’t have been made with primitive tools. This video explores the most compelling ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A cruise through Egypt packs in history and romance, whitewashed villages and cacophonous cities, farmland and sand dunes, and a ...

Like Mena House, the Cataract is one of Egypt’s most storied hotels ... picturesque bend in the river opposite the ruins of Elephantine Island. From the hotel’s vast, shady terrace we watched ...

We took a Felucca ride on the River Nile to reach Elephantine Island (Picture: Katie Boyden) ‘With the richness of history and culture which is so different to the UK, the awe of Egypt alone has ...

And a luxury cruise on the Nile River in Egypt is apparently "the best way ... Guests can take a ride on a traditional felucca around Elephantine Island and Lord Kitchener’s Botanical Gardens ...

Fatima then took us to her family home on Elephantine Island – the original part of Aswan – which is also a charming little museum showing the history of the Nubians in southern Egypt.

This ancient trading city on the Nile is the most wonderfully scenic of all Egypt’s riverside ... granite boulders that have given one island its name, Elephantine. The new town rises in a ...

“Elephantine Island of the Millennia” brings together newly translated texts, artifacts, and interactive “activity stations” to tell the story of a place unlike any other in ancient Egypt.

Nosy Be means “Big Island” in the Malagasy ... and restaurants in recent decades, much of Elephantine still looks, acts and feels like rural Egypt. Ruined temples dating to around 3,200 ...