„Zur Kur an den Nil“ is the commented edition of a travelogue from winter 1900/01 written by the German-Jewish Ophthalmologist and Orientalist Max Meyerhof (1874-1945). It was because of health reasons that Meyerhof, together with his younger relative Otto Meyerhof (1884-1951), the later Nobel laureate in medicine, spent five months in Egypt. His travelogue gives a vivid and entertaining account of the manifold impressions during their sojourn on the banks of the Nile. Texts and illustrations from contemporary travel literature were added to widen the view and complete the richly illustrated volume. Further research concerns some places they visited, certain experiences of the two travelers, as well as encounters with well-known or unknown people. Deliberately written in a popular-scientific style the book aims to enliven documents from former times with “infotainment”, in order to reveal how events and people are linked together – back then and now.