East Bank of the Nile River Location: Luxor, Egypt Recently we unearthed a batch of travel photos on slides that we had nearly forgotten about. The photos were taken with my SLR camera in the pre-digital days. My husband has been scanning the transparencies so that I can post some of them on line. Here is the first of those. It shows a small settlement along the East Bank of the Nile River, not far from Luxor, in southern Egypt.