An international team of divers discovered ancient finds from the depths of the Nile River that treasure Egypt's unique ...

The Nile's predictable flooding allowed Egyptians to turn their arid homeland into the breadbasket of the region. And the easy-to-navigate Egyptian section made transporting raw materials for ...

You can, however, expect to meet some crocodiles on your Nile voyage. Most itineraries stop at Kom Ombo, a town 50km upriver ...

If you know that the Nile floods every year, you may think that the Egyptian people will have enough water as long as the Nile exists. However, the population of Egypt has been increasing very rapidly ...

An Israeli website's hypothetical scenario of striking Egypt’s High Dam has sparked outrage in Arab media, further fuelling ...

Seasonal flooding has long been part of the lifestyle of pastoral communities around the Sudd, the largest wetlands in Africa, in the Nile River floodplain. But since the 1960s the swamp has kept ...

and as might have been expected, he finds no relation whatever between any sun-spot maxima and minima, and the maxima and minima of the Nile floods. The years 1866–67 were sun-spot minima ...

There is less fear of furious rapids and man eating reptiles – instead the fear here is when and if the annual flood of the Blue Nile will appear. Some years, the monsoon rain does not overflow ...

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We even measure the level of the River Nile to see how much flooding we can expect. We have three seasons: Akhet, the flooding season, Peret, the growing season and Shemu, the harvesting season.