The pharaohs asserted their authority over the population by claiming the power to intercede with the gods to ensure the Nile River flooded each year.
His talks with Morsy included regional concerns as well as bread-and-butter issues like livestock imports, industrial development and water rights in the Nile River basin, Ali said.
Balloon rides offering panoramic aerial views of the Nile River and the ancient temples of Karnak and Hatshepsut are a popular tourist attraction in Luxor, about a nine-hour drive southeast of Cairo.
Egypt's meddling advances its interest of preventing the African nations from mounting a unified challenge to Egypt's colonial legacy of extraordinary rights to the waters of the Nile River which flows through all countries of the region.
For example, significant cooling and strong dynamical effects after the Laki event and other high-latitude eruptions are believed to have caused decreased flow of the Nile River in Egypt and weakened African and Asian monsoons based on climate model simulations, with potentially very significant impacts on food and water supplies.
Sudanese workers are busy with Khartoum's face lift, especially on Nile Road, running along the Blue Nile River past the grand palace grounds and government ministries, the road's median lined with newly planted pink bougainvillea and palm trees, running up to a brand-new development built especially for the African heads of state due here for the two-day meeting beginning January 23rd.
Luxor lies on the banks of the River Nile in the south of the country, and has long been a popular tourist destination.
Balloon rides are a popular way to see the numerous ancient sites which line the banks of the River Nile at Luxor, in the south of Egypt, such as the temple of Karnak and the royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings.
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He defines Asia broadly, as bordering with Europe at the Aegean Sea and Africa at the River Nile.
The prospect of secession by southern Sudan worries Egypt: it fears that a new political actor on the Nile might disturb the river's flow, Egypt's lifeline.
Until his death in 1904, Herzl worked feverishly to build international recognition of the Jewish people's right to the Land of Israel in its maximalist borders - from the Nile Delta to the Euphrates River.
"In the 1980's somebody came to me and said that there was a new creature in the river Nile, " says Khalil.
Fifty-eight foreign tourists were killed when Islamist gunmen invaded a poorly guarded temple across the River Nile from Luxor.
In Omdurman, across the river Nile, a polling official was confronted by scores of them, all with voting certificates from the local popular committee.
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"We are reserving this area for hotels which will have a spectacular view, " he said as we stood beside a mango grove looking out over the River Nile.
Too many people who live in the cities and towns that flank the Mississippi have forgotten that a river as grand and nearly as long as the Nile flows beside them.
Ghana long ago dammed the River Volta, Egypt the Nile, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique the Zambezi.
So I was just contemplating whether we were going to meet the same fate - the so-called "hammer treatment", or perhaps, I wondered, the river treatment - being dropped into the Nile tied to a cement block.
When Mr. Alimi and others reached the Nile that afternoon and sought a way to cross the river, tear gas began to rain down on marchers.
Boarding a vessel on the Nile is to peel back millennia and slow down to river speed as ancient temples, oxcarts and palm trees pass by, unaltered since Pharaohs ruled the roost.
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