Takes the reader on a photographic excursion into an astonishing culture and its 4000 years of history. Starting with an overview of the Nile, it explores every corner of Egypt including Alexandria and the Mediterranean coast, the Sinai desert and the Suez Canal, the pyramids of Giza and the monuments of Luxor, Karnak and Thebes, the Valley of the Kings, and the great temples of Abu Simbel that were moved stone-by-stone from their original site.