For thousands of years, 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.

She said the river would have played a key role in ancient ... these pieces we can gain a clearer picture of what the Nile floodplain looked like at the time of the pyramid builders and how ...

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The Emperor Nero sent out a Roman expedition to find the Nile's source some 2,000 years before Victorian explorers reached ...

The Ancient Egyptians called The Nile 'Ar' which meant black, because that was the colour of the soil and silt left behind after theflooding. Some years though the river didn't flood properly ...

The Nile was the lifeblood of ancient Egypt ... marks that acted like a giant ruler indicating the river’s height. During the flood season, priests monitored water levels daily to help predict ...

Unprecedented flooding in Sudan this year led to the ... while power and water supplies were disrupted when the River Nile recorded its highest level in living memory. Some experts said that ...

The Nile’s annual flooding – which takes place August-October ... abreast of the situation concerning the output of the Nile River in the current water year. The committee meetings ...