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Images in this gallery cover modern Luxor, general agriculture and photos not specific to other groups such as the recent excavations of the Sphinx Avenue, the alabaster factory and workers and the residential houses bordering the various roads to the main sites. It also includes the balloon flights and views from the balloon.
Luxor Farmland EG051941jhp Egyptian Luxor Theban hills farming fields fertile flat land agriculture views taken on the taxi trip from Luxor City, crossing the River Nile by the new southern road bridge and then heading north and westwards towards the main ancient sites of the West Bank. The trip is also a reminder of the wealth that was the engine that created ancient Egypt because of the fertility bordering the River Nile caused by the annual inundations with the flood waters depositing fertile mud giving abundant food sufficient to feed the large transient labour force required to build these huge monuments from Giza, Memphis, Thebes and southwards to Abu Simbel. Keywords: Egypt, Luxor, West, Bank, River, Nile, Theban, hills, holiday, travel, tourism, cruise, history, archaeology, Egyptology, temples, tombs, agriculture, Egyptians, farmers, farming, fields, mud, fertile, fertilisers, water, irrigation, crops, maize, corn, sugar, cane, palm, trees, dates, vegetables, green, brown, irrigation, water, ditches, taxi, dusty, roads, electricity, poles, telephone, lines, New, Qurna, landscape, Fuji, S3, DSLR, 2005
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Photographer: Jim Henderson
Collection: Luxor City & Misc West Bank
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Luxor Farmland EG051941jhp
Upload Date: 2005-04-25 13:53:30
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Egyptian Luxor Theban hills farming fields fertile flat land agriculture

views taken on the taxi trip from Luxor City, crossing the River Nile by the new southern road bridge and then heading north and westwards towards the main ancient sites of the West Bank. The trip is also a reminder of the wealth that was the engine that created ancient Egypt because of the fertility bordering the River Nile caused by the annual inundations with the flood waters depositing fertile mud giving abundant food sufficient to feed the large transient labour force required to build these huge monuments from Giza, Memphis, Thebes and southwards to Abu Simbel.
Keywords: Egypt, Luxor, West, Bank, River, Nile, Theban, hills, holiday, travel, tourism, cruise, history, archaeology, Egyptology, temples, tombs, agriculture, Egyptians, farmers, farming, fields, mud, fertile, fertilisers, water, irrigation, crops, maize, corn, sugar, cane, palm, trees, dates, vegetables, green, brown, irrigation, water, ditches, taxi, dusty, roads, electricity, poles, telephone, lines, New, Qurna, landscape, Fuji, S3, DSLR, 2005