A map of the Nile River with political boundaries. (Photo: Rainer Lesniewski/Shutterstock) The Nile has three main tributaries: the White Nile, the Blue Nile, and the Atbara.

Thirty-one different Egyptian pyramids appear to have been built along a branch of the Nile River that dried up millennia ago, according to new research published today in Communications Earth ...

A now-extinct stretch of the Nile once flowed near Egypt’s Great Pyramid and likely played a key role in the construction of ancient monuments, according to new research.

A map showing the proposed site of the newly discovered branch of the Nile, and how it snaked past many pyramid sites Eman Ghoneim et al. Importantly, this old man river seems to have weaved its ...

A map from 1805 show the fictional Mountains of the Moon bisecting the African continent. ... In actuality, the Nile River branches off into two distinct tributaries at Khartoum in Sudan.

A map showing the water course of the ancient Ahramat Branch described in the study and the route of the modern Nile. The course of the ancient branch borders a large number of pyramids.

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, as well as most English-speaking sources, the Nile is the world’s longest river, stretching roughly 6,695km from East Central Africa towards ...

The inhospitable location has long puzzled archaeologists, some of whom had found evidence that the Nile River once flowed near these pyramids in some capacity, facilitating the landmarks ...