The River of Light
Imagine, you have the wings of a bird and now you are flying in the night sky, somewhere in the middle of Asia and Africa. You fly past the Arabian Peninsula and suddnely something dazzling catches your sight. On the southern side of the Mediterranean Sea, looks more like a luminous snake slithering towards the sea.
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Then you realize that you are in Egypt and that giant snake is nothing but the legendary Nile. Thenceforth, the snake transforms into a river —a river of light!
It may seem that, these lights originated from the ancient Alexandria and the mystic pyramids. Or perhaps they are the scattered fragments of Hypatia — the Alexandrian philosopher and one of the first female mathematicians who was murdered and torn apart — eventually have lit after a great passage of time, through the growth of civilization, and still now spreading little by little across the earth.
The river Nile has provided water to the desert, turning it into a habitable land for the Egyptian people from the ancient time. Therefore, most of the population has grown along the banks of the river, the image says it all. When the entire Egypt is almost dark the Nile shines brightly at night, which actually makes it the “The River of Light!”
