If you look at the Nile on a map of Egypt, you don't think it has moved very much, but the river is very violent and has moved over time.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
What we did is we used NASA topography data to map out the landscape, very subtle changes. We started to be able to see where the Nile used to flow.
If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.
If Egypt is unstable, then the entire region is unstable.
Let's set things straight... there are 300 million people living in countries within the Nile basin in horrific economic and security conditions. The $500 that they earn in Israel every month is an annual salary in their countries of origin.
Egypt is a large, complex, very important country.
Egypt is the oldest, largest and most important Arab country in the region. What happens there affects them all.
If Egypt were going to change, it is going to change through the young people.
We have so many issues with overpopulation and urbanization and site looting. And this isn't just Egypt. This is everywhere in the world, even in America. So we only have a limited amount of time left before many archaeological sites all over the world are destroyed.
The Egyptian Nile, though it does have its own particular hazards, is subject to none of what I find in Rhode Island. Since the Aswan High Dam was built in 1973, the Nile has become something of a grand canal. It is wide, flat, slow, and so calm it verges on the geriatric.
Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.