The river Nile was life in ancient Egypt, providing a fundamental source of water and fertile silt while simultaneously offering protection and spiritual strength. Ancient Egyptians monitored the ...

Egypt may literally be described as "the river which is Egypt," meaning the land formed by the silt-laden annual flood of the Nile. It seldom rains in that fertile area. The Nile is its life. Deprive ...

Most floodwater cannot freely drain back into the main channel of the White Nile, and water struggles to infiltrate the floodplain’s clay and silt soil. This means flooding persists for a long ...

Most floodwater cannot freely drain back into the main channel of the White Nile, and water struggles to infiltrate the floodplain’s clay and silt soil. This means flooding persists for a long ...

Over the years, farmers like Idris who own farms along the Nile have been forced to change their crops due to flood devastation and tonnes of deposited silt. Brickmakers fire blocks of mud in ...

Then it gradually dissolved, only to be covered in silt. She said they plan to expand their map and work to detect additional buried branches of the Nile floodplain. Determining the outline and ...

A long lost portion of the Nile may answer a mystery behind some ... buried under sand and silt for thousands of years. If so, this could explain how builders managed to transport the monuments ...