Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vi
4. Preface xi
5. Road Map xv
6. Supporting Visual Material xxi
7. Prologue. The Urban Life of a River 1
8. 1. Finding the Source of the Nile: Centuries of Discovery 11
9. 2. The Birth of the Nile: Water Carves a Path through Rugged Land 29
10. 3. The Nile of Lower Egypt: Memphis, the First Capital City 47
11. 4. Thebes of the Pharaohs: The Nile of Upper Egypt 61
12. 5. Avaris and Akhetaten: Temporary Capitals on the Nile 77
13. 6. Nubia on the Nile: The Kingdom of the Black Pharaohs in Napata and Meroe 91
14. 7. Alexandria: Greeks and Romans on the Western Edge of the Nile Delta 107
15. 8. A Nile Oasis in the Sahara: Fayoum of the Ptolemies 125
16. 9. Cairo: The Thousand-year Capital on the Nile 139
17. 10. Crusaders on the Nile: Damietta and Mansoura 163
18. 11. Cities of the Blue Nile: Lake Tana and the Ethiopian Empires 179
19. 12. Rosetta and the Discovery of Ancient Egypt: Where the Nile Meets the Sea 195
20. 13. Khartoum and Omdurman: An Islamic State on the Nile in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan 211
21. 14. A Pyramid for the Living: The Nile at Aswan 229
22. Epilogue. On the Possible Death of the Nile and the Life of its Cities 245
23. Index 255