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 ...

What is the longest river in the world, the Nile or the Amazon? It’s a question that has fuelled debate for years. Now, an expedition into the South American jungle aims to settle it for good.

For the 10 best Nile river cruises to book, see our guide. Nile cruises are available all year round but because of extreme heat, June, July and August are best avoided. The classic seven-night ...

It helped people to easily access the water from the River Nile. They built a system of canals to bring the water to the crops a process that's called irrigation. So it's no accident that one of ...

they referred to its annual flooding as the "Gift of the Nile." Each summer, like clockwork, the river would take possession of a strip of land on either side of its banks. When the water receded ...

Egypt’s Nile River is populated with ancient wonders and a host of cruise lines vying for your tourism dollars, but Oberoi is one of the only operators that secures private docking privileges in ...

For that reason, almost all the drinking water and water required for farming comes from the Nile River. If you know that the Nile floods every year, you may think that the Egyptian people will have ...

At 4,130 miles (6,650 km) long, the Nile in Africa is the longest river in the world. Some people consider the Amazon in South America to be longer. This is because the many hundreds of channels ...

Tour operator TUI expanded its river cruises outside Europe with the five-star, all-inclusive ship Al Horeya, which recently began sailing the Nile.