HISTORIX Vintage 1910 The Nile Valley Map Print - Nile Valley Map Including Egypt Nubia Uganda Abyssinia British East Africa & Somali Land

Produced by the Edward Stanton Limited mapmaking company, which was founded in the nineteenth century and remains a respected producer to this day, this map of the Nile Valley is an essential piece of international cartographical history that bears a classic aesthetic and distinctive style that immediately transports the viewer back in time creating an indelible bond between the past and present. Edward Stanford was born in 1827 and began his career as a cartographer at the age of fourteen and would go on to become one of the most prestigious British cartographers of the nineteenth century.  

The Nile Valley and river have been historically considered the longest in the world, though some research in recent years disputes this claim and gives the title to the Amazon River. The Nile travels through eleven countries in Northeast Africa before reaching the Mediterranean Sea. The two main tributaries that feed the Nile, The Blue, and White Nile, begin at Lake Victoria and Lake Tana, respectively. The Nile Valley is an essential ecosystem for the region's residents and has remained an important agricultural area since the earliest inhabitants started farming the area. The northern section of the river flows almost entirely through the Nubian Desert before reaching the iconic confluence with the Mediterranean in Cairo. 

This is a historic piece of international cartographic history with a rarified aesthetic that immediately transports the viewer back in time, creating a bond between the past and present of one of the most iconic places in the world.