![]() ![]() 1920s aboard the Steamship SudanĮgypt in the 1930s was a busy place. Agatha’s Christie’s novel Death on the Nile (1937) perhaps encapsulated all the mystery, glamour and intrigue of this river’s colossal history in one moment, exotically intertwining the ancient Egyptian’s fixation on death, dusty ruins, luxury steamships and ill-gotten wealth with a contemporary death plot. ![]() ![]() This graceful journey up the river, passing ancient pyramids and crumbling burial sites was the subject of legend, captured in books and films over the past 150 years. Thousands of years after pharaohs were ferried to the afterlife on golden barges, the steamboat began transporting mesmerised 19 th century tourists past their temples in search of something otherworldly. The passage up the Blue Nile has always been both a physical experience and an allegorical tale. A rare archive image of the SS Sudan Steamship and the Abu Simbel Temple before it was moved and rescued from the water ![]()
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