| IF YOU WOULD LIKE A LARGE DETAILED SCAN CONTACT US FOR A COPY.Aswan (Aswa-n) (24°05? N 32°56? E,) is a city in the south of Egypt, the capital of the governorate of the same name. It stands on the east bank of the Nile at the first cataract and is a busy market and tourist center. Aswan is one of the driest inhabited places in the world; In Nubian settlements they generally do not bother to roof all of the rooms in their houses. Identified with the ancient city of Syene, which is famous for providing a basis on which Eratosthenes disputed the Flat Earth theory and attempted to determine the circumference of the Earth. There are six classical Cataracts of the Nile between Khartoum and Aswan, counted upstream. Only the first one is in modern Egypt, the rest are in Sudan. The First Cataract is near Aswan (24.078° N 32.878° E) Published for Elisee Reclus Universal Geography |
