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Movies: Traveling the Nile

By moviejourneys On October 12, 2014 · Add Comment · In Egypt: Cornerstone, Middle East

There is a tendency when traveling on the Nile to become directionally challenged (at least for me), and boggled by dates that run backwards. It feels strange to North Americans to travel up the mighty river to the south and down again to the north (it has to do with the current). And further, one [...]

Movies About Ancient Egypt

By moviejourneys On October 11, 2014 · Add Comment · In Egypt: Cornerstone, Middle East

The first capital of Egypt was Memphis, which today lies in complete ruination just twelve miles south of Cairo. Legend holds that the city was founded by the pharaoh Menes about 5000 years ago. Some modern scholars maintain that Menes and King Narmer were one and the same man and that this man, whatever his [...]

Movies About Alexandria

By moviejourneys On October 11, 2014 · Add Comment · In Egypt: Cornerstone, Middle East

Egypt was conquered by Alexander the Great in 332 BCE after an earlier conquest by Persia. This was a trophy victory for the young general but he had bigger targets in mind. Soon he moved on to Mesopotamia, capturing Babylon, and then vanquishing the entire Persian Empire. Before leaving Egypt, however, he founded a city [...]

Movies About Modern Egypt

By moviejourneys On October 11, 2014 · Add Comment · In Egypt: Cornerstone, Middle East

Some flashes of modern Egyptian history can be found in the film Suez (1938), a highly fictionalized account of the building of the Canal, which opened in 1869. There is no sight quite like traveling across the Sinai desert and suddenly seeing an oceangoing vessel plowing through the sand. In the romanticized account of the [...]

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