The longest river in the world, the Nile flows over 4000 miles from its source in the mountains of east and central Africa to the Mediterranean. It passes through rock and sand, past fields of date palms and quaint villages – and some of the greatest archeological treasures on earth. The great kingdoms of ancient Egypt created extraordinary works of art and architecture that have lured visitors for millennia. "There is no country that possesses so many wonders", wrote Herodotus in 450 B.C., and the Nile's treasures are no less astonishing today.
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