Take a look at NASA’s images of the Nile River, the Grand Ethiopia Renaissance Dam, and the dam’s reservoir. The delta ...

The North African country is building the world’s largest artificial river, which will transform 9,200 square kilometres of ...

In the Nile Delta, farming the redolent vine is both a tradition and a vital way to make a living.

This is the first volume on the history of the Nile Delta to cover the c.7000 years from the Predynastic period to the twentieth century. It offers a multidisciplinary approach engaging with varied ...

The most recently discovered example was found in the Nile Delta at the Greco-Roman city of Thmuis, modern-day Tell Timai, and was constructed in the third century B.C. Nilometers were built in a ...

“Everyone is worried about the dam, not just me,” said Mohamed Abdelkhaleq, 69, a lifelong farmer in Egypt’s Nile Delta, where two-thirds of the country’s food is grown. Even without the ...

This narrow strip along the Nile, together with the delta at the river's northern mouth, is the only farm land Egypt has. Though it totals only three percent of the county's land, it has provided ...

This project was the first to precisely measure the water movement and estimate the water balance in the irrigated fields in the Nile Delta. * This provides basic data for adapting new approaches for ...

Consequently, food production and job creation are pressing issues. But the capacity of food production in the Nile Delta, the traditional major agricultural region, is limited, and the available ...

Inspired by the secret to the Nile Delta’s fertility, engineers are using a concoction of clay, water and local soils to grow fruits in the desert. In March this year, just as countries across ...

The key populations appear to have been around Aswan in southern Egypt, and the region just south of the Nile Delta, which is now the site of modern Cairo. Differing groups of people settled at ...

Nora Shawki is a National Geographic Explorer and Egyptian archaeologist, who has been excavating ancient sites in the Nile Delta for 7 years. Nora has served as a field archaeologist on foreign ...