Aswan, Egypt's sunniest southern winter resort and ancient frontier town, lies around 900 km from Cairo and 215km from Luxor. It is one of the most beautiful places in the country with the town located on the east bank and the desert closing in on the Nile. aswan is truly considered the jewel of the Nile. The Nile here, is at its most beautiful, flowing through amber desert and granite rocks, lush islands covered in palm groves and tropical plants. Actually, its ancient name “Syene” , was derived from “Syenite” or red granite ,that was extracted from its quarries and furnished raw material for much of the sculptures at Karnak and Luxor, as well as to most ancient Egyptian temples, obelisks and colossi. It is said that due to its geographical position, not far above the Tropic of cancer , it had been chosen by Erathostenes to calculate the radius of the earth in 230 BC.
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