The Rosetta Stone Helped Decode Egyptian Hieroglyphs

The Great Pyramid was built around 2560 BCE, while Cleopatra lived about 2,000 years before 1969.

Howard Carter discovered the nearly intact tomb in the Valley of the Kings.

The waterway links the Mediterranean and Red Seas and spares ships the trip around Africa.

Most of the country is desert, so the population clusters along the river and its delta.