To celebrate our new Egypt special we have a gallery of photographs from the Rough Guide archives following the publication of the latest edition of their Egypt guide.

In addition, the guide's co-author Daniels Jacobs has written us an exclusive guide to Cairo's Egyptian Museum in a day.

Another guide has been published to celebrate the arrival of Tutankhamun in London - the Rough Guide to Tutankhamun.

To whet your appetite to one of the most popular and closest of exotic destinations, here's the book's introduction:

Egypt is the oldest tourist destination on earth. Ancient Greeks and Romans started the trend, coming to goggle at the Cyclopean scale of the Pyramids and the Colossi of Thebes. During colonial times, Napoleon and the British looted Egypt's treasures to fill their national museums, sparking off a trickle of Grand Tourists that eventually became a flood of travellers, taken on Nile cruises and Egyptological lectures by the enterprising Thomas Cook.

Today, the attractions of the country are not only the monuments of the Nile Valley and the souks, mosques and madrassas of Islamic Cairo, but also fantastic coral reefs and tropical fish, dunes, ancient fortresses, monasteries and prehistoric rock art.

The Rough Guide to Egypt fourth edition was published in August, priced £15.99, and is available from the Rough Guides website

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