I know more about the geography of the Nile River than I did. But because the book proceeds geographically down the Nile instead of chronologically through history, I never grasped the sequence of events and people. The author covered the pharaohs, the farmers, the tourists and the archaeologists along the way, with the occasional interesting story mixed in with all the lists of names. He also credits Egypt as the birthplace of all religion and never missed an opportunity to take a slam at Christianity by pointing out every similarity between it and Egyptian religions and implying that similarity proves origin.