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Aswan & Nile

ASWAN & NILE

Elephantine Island: Aswan’s 5,000-Year-Old Nile Island

Elephantine Island sits right in the middle of the Nile at Aswan, and has done something no other spot on the river has managed: stayed continuously inhabited for over 5,000 years. Long before Aswan grew into a modern city on the riverbank, this island was already a genuine settlement, a border post, and a religious […]

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