As Egypt warms almost twice as fast as the rest of the world, the Nile is drying up. Rising seawater is killing crops in the fertile Delta region. The ancient city of Alexandria stands to drown. The effects of global warming on celebrated antiquities are already striking. In Luxor, changing weather is amplifying the destructive impacts of human developments around the monuments. Increasingly frequent rain storms have corroded the stones and washed ancient color from carvings. Some temple stones have cracked in two; moisture has reduced chunks of others to little more than powdery ocher sand. Other stones are eaten away entirely. The tombs in the Valley of the Kings may be gone completely within a century.
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