Nile Mystery: Just Whose River Is It?

National Public Radio: All great mysteries begin at the end and end at the very beginning. And for thousands of years, the Nile River was perhaps the world's greatest mystery. Anyone can see where it ends, pouring northward through Egypt and into the Mediterranean Sea. But locating the origins of this magnificent river befuddled nearly everybody. Not until the Victorian Age did Western explorers find what had eluded so many. The 19th century explorers who helped solve the mystery of the Nile's source ......

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