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A sanctuary of Isis dismantled stone by stone, then rebuilt on another island.
AswanAgilkia Island
Indigo houses, a dune behind them, and a culture that is nothing like Egyptian.
AswanGharb Soheil, west bank
One sail, no engine: the wind decides how your hour on the river goes.
AswanNile
The island in mid-river: two Nubian villages, ruins, and the nilometer that set the tax.
A granite jumble covered in inscriptions: floods, expeditions, a seven-year famine.
The work that stopped the Nile flood: the river on one side, a freshwater sea on the other.
AswanThe Dam
A fortified monastery abandoned in the thirteenth century, alone in the west-bank sand.
AswanWest bank
The worksite that produced the obelisks and colossi of all Egypt.
AswanAswan
A Nubian village on a lake island, almost without visitors.
AswanSouth of the dam, Aswan
