Egypt’s history on a cruise down the Nile

Egypt’s history on a cruise down the Nile

The Arabic call to prayer echoes across Cairo, rising through the stone minarets that punctuate the city’s skyline. ‘It’s a reminder to our people to surrender the distractions and pleasures of this world in pursuit of the afterlife,’ my companion, an Egyptologist, tells me as we weave past the street vendors abandoning their posts at the local bazaar to make their way to the mosque. An unyielding belief in eternity and the afterlife has long co…