In Berlin, the past division of the city seeps into every concrete curve. As I walk with my dad beside the remains of the wall, I think of the past. I think of my own, of the city’s. I think of barriers and division between past and present, life and death. And I wonder if, like the Berlin Wall, hastily erected to solidify separation, the barriers we enforce between life and death might not also be too firmly cemented.

Writer Amy Reid and Middle East and Africa Editor, Josh Moreton, bring us an evocative recollection of their jaunt across Upper Egypt. Dive into the ancient world through the eyes of a modern tourist.