Whenever my travels take me to this part of the Nile River, I always close my eyes and remember what it was like a long time ago...

This is the homeland of the Nubian people and it is full of precious monuments, temples, art — the rich history of a great black civilization.

It's hard to see now because most of it is underwater. When the British built the Aswan High Dam, they submerged part of Nubia under a lake about 250 miles long! The Nubian people living there had to leave their ancestral lands, but before it was flooded many caring people worked to save and preserve their unique culture and language.

Now let's go look for that piece of the Calabash…