The First Zoo: A Glimpse into Prehistoric Egypt Among the discoveries at Hierakonpolis ... Baboons and leopards, for example, are not native to the Nile Valley, indicating that early Egyptians ...

The zoo was established by Egypt’s Khedive Isma’il Pasha in 1891 ... a species of deer that use to roam the Nile Valley 100 years ago. The museum also displays a pharaonic mummy of the ...

Downstream in Egypt, where the Nile meets the sea, a starkly different picture emerges: The dam is a giant, menacing barrier that could be used to hold back the source of nearly all the country ...