{"id":5624,"date":"2026-01-22T12:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T11:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geodia.net\/bookstore\/?post_type=product&#038;p=5624"},"modified":"2026-01-26T13:38:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T12:38:29","slug":"the-nile-from-luxor-to-abu-simbel-the-archaeological-guide","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.geodia.net\/bookstore\/prodotto\/the-nile-from-luxor-to-abu-simbel-the-archaeological-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nile From Luxor To Abu Simbel The Archaeological Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><i>In the second half of the 19th century, Egypt\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>became the main destination for European<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>tourists in search of adventure, exoticism and the<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>mystery of its origins, following in the footsteps<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>of great writers such as Flaubert, G\u00e9rard de<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Nerval, Pierre Loti and Agatha Christie. The<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>first cruises on the Nile were organized using<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>large sailing boats called dahabeya. A famous<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>French writer said, \u201cGoing up the Nile! These<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>two words meant the most ideal journey a man<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>can undertake.\u201d It was the English entrepreneur<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Thomas Cook who, around 1880, introduced<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>the use of the first steamboats to go up the Nile<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>and be able to visit the monuments of Pharaonic<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Egypt more quickly. Even today, sailing on<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>the great river that crosses the country like a<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>major road remains the best way to visit the<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>extraordinary archaeological sites of Egypt.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[215,219,213,251],"product_tag":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geodia.net\/bookstore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/5624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geodia.net\/bookstore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geodia.net\/bookstore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geodia.net\/bookstore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geodia.net\/bookstore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geodia.net\/bookstore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geodia.net\/bookstore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=5624"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geodia.net\/bookstore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=5624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}