Quotes by Nile Egypt is the gift of the Nile. Herodotus nile egypt During the most flourishing times of Sidon and Tyre, the land of the Phoenicians was a perpetual apple of contention between the powers that ruled on the Euphrates and on the Nile, and was subject sometimes to the Assyrians, sometimes to the Egyptians. Theodor Mommsen apple nile land sometimes