Every week our Holiday Hero Neil Simpson takes an in-depth look at a brilliant holiday topic, doing all the legwork so you don’t have to. This week: The best ships for a Nile cruise. The old-fashioned glamour of a river cruise through
The real star of the new Agatha Christie movie is ancient Egypt – so hop aboard for a front-row seat
Pashminas are raining down around us like a fusillade of flapping missiles, hurled on to our riverboat by determined hawkers hell-bent on making a sale. ‘Hey, lady. Lookie, lookie, throw us money,’ yells one of them, standing on the lock wall below,
As Egyptian Pharaoh’s grave is discovered, LORD CARNAVON’S gripping dispatch for the Mail on the wonders he discovered December 18, 1922 On the edge of the cultivation on the western bank of the Nile, and extending for five miles in length and a
A sailor who was forced to live alone on a ghost ship in Egypt for four years because of red tape has finally be allowed to go home. Mohammed Aisha boarded a plane back to Syria in Cairo on Friday, describing his
Countries in the Middle East have dominated a list of the world’s top executioners in 2020 with more than 400 executed, Amnesty International revealed today. Iran, Egypt, Iraq and Saudi Arabia accounted for 88 per cent of the at least 483 people
A megaship which blocked Egypt’s Suez Canal and crippled world trade for nearly a week has been ‘seized’ on court orders until the vessel’s owners pay $900 million, canal authorities said Tuesday. The MV Ever Given was seized due to its failure
Little was previously known about the ancient South American civilisation’s literary achievements because its three main libraries were destroyed by Spanish invaders in 1521.
Egypt’s first female ship’s captain say ‘fake news’ reports blamed her for blocking the Suez Canal despite her being hundreds of miles away Marwa Elselehdar was first mate in command of the Aida IV in Alexandria Online rumours spread that she had
Egypt held a spectacular parade to transport 22 mummies of its most famous pharaohs from central Cairo to their new resting place at a museum. The ceremony snaked along the Nile corniche from the Egyptian Museum overlooking Tahrir Square to the newly
Egypt seeks $1billion compensation for Ever Given crisis which blocked the Suez Canal for nearly a week Ever Given spent six days stuck in the canal after running aground on March 23 Compensation includes cost of the salvage operation and recuperation of losses