It is 695 feet on a side at the base and stands 450 feet ... both of which in olden days would have stood on the edge of the Nile. (A change in the river's course has left it farther east today.) ...

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, as well as most English-speaking sources, the Nile is the world’s longest river, stretching roughly 6,695km from East Central Africa towards ...