Travel
Postcard: the pyramids by night, beside the river
An imagined night scene of the pyramids and the Nile, the kind of image that sums up what Egypt means to many of its people.
This illustration brings the pyramids and the Nile together under the stars, a pairing that geography does not quite allow: the Giza pyramids stand on the desert plateau west of the river, not on its bank.
As a picture of what Egypt means to many of its people, though, it is hard to beat. A civilisation shaped by thousands of years of history, and a country that keeps moving forward.
