The Journal
Stories from the Nile
Notes on Egypt, its temples and its river — travel dispatches for the unhurried.
How to read a cartouche
The oval loop around a royal name is a rope with no beginning and no end. Learn four signs and you can pick a pharaoh out of a temple wall yourself.
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Philae, the temple that was moved
The island you visit is not the island it was built on. Between 1972 and 1980 the temple of Isis was cut into forty thousand blocks and rebuilt next door.
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