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...difficult to book passage without buying a package, which includes a stay at a decent Cairo hotel but not the Mena House. These days, for as little as $1,845--half the price of the package tour--you can book a four-day trip from Luxor to Aswan, or vice versa, on A&K's stately Sun Boat IV (800-323-7308). Flights from Cairo to Aswan or Luxor are only $290 round trip...
...woke up one morning to hear that her 20-year-old brother had died in a car crash (as their sister had before him). Making her way back to the ancient world, as if in response, she soon found herself being passed over the heads of a crowd in Aswan and onto a ferry where men "reclined in circles smoking honey-soaked tobacco in water pipes," their eyes the "shades of lavender or mint green...
...courtiers to hear his plans for completing the work. From there he went on to build dozens of monuments, including a temple to Osiris at Abydos, expansions of the temples at Luxor and Karnak and the cliff temples at Abu Simbel, which were rescued from waters rising behind the Aswan Dam in the 1960s...
...TOURIST CITY OF ASWAN WAS ALREADY TENSE following the murder of two policemen. Then, acting on a tip that antigovernment militants were secretly assembling, security forces surrounded the city's al-Rahman Mosque. Gunfire suddenly pierced the night and continued for hours. When it was over, 14 had been killed, including a policeman. Eight coordinated raids in the Cairo area and one north of the capital produced more shoot-outs and more casualties: a total of 23 dead and 46 injured, the highest toll since the assassination of Anwar Sadat...
...stood Egypt's charismatic President Gamal Abdel Nasser, who had seized power in 1952 and had vowed to unite the Arab world under his leadership. The Soviets encouraged him with arms and money. U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles retaliated by canceling his promise to help finance the Aswan High Dam, which Nasser hoped would harness the Nile. Nasser struck back in July 1956 by seizing the Suez Canal, still legally owned by the Franco-British Suez Canal...