books.google.co.uk - For thousands of years Egypt has crowded the Nile Valley and Delta. The Eastern Desert, however, has also played a crucial—though until now little understood—role in Egyptian history. Ancient inhabitants of the Nile Valley feared the desert, which they referred to as the Red Land, and were...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Red_Land.html?id=Eyemu-_MncwC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Red Land