Searching for the Venice of the Nile

摘要

I'm kneeling in a narrow strip of green fields that separates the Nile river from Egypt's western desert, watching Angus Graham and his team hammer what look like huge metal tent pegs into the ground. A few fields away, the ruined columns of the Ramesseum, mortuary temple of Pharaoh Ramesses Ⅱ, rise above the wheat, overlooked by the amber cliffs that hide the royal tombs of the Valley of the Kings.