The success of the ancient Egyptians in establishing a great civilization was due to their success in understanding and coping very well with the hydrological and then agro-hydrological system of the ...

When they were slaves in Egypt for some 430 years, the Israelites built storehouses for Pharaoh, not the pyramids we know. However, according to researchers in Egypt, the US, and Australia, the ...

This is a painting that dates back thousands of years to Ancient Egypt. Artworks like this tell us a lot about the time and place that they come from. This painting shows a farmworker using a shaduf.

are some of the highlights of National Geographic’s Nile River Cruise: Treasures of Egypt? This trip carries the traveler to many of the highlights of ancient Egyptian civilization. Starting in ...

and Indus Rivers for significance to the earliest human civilizations. As much as we focus on the Nile for its role in Ancient Egyptian history, there are still many surprising facts about the Nile ...

The ancient Egyptians based their farming around the annual flooding of the River Nile. There were three seasons in the Egyptian calendar: Akhet Also called the Season of the Inundation.

A dazzling civilization flourished in Sudan ... the region surrounding the Nile River between Aswan in southern Egypt and Khartoum in central Sudan. Seeing the documentary pushed me to read ...

Ancient Rivers, like the Nile ... the size of the river! When it receded, it left behind a carpet of fertile soil that fed the world’s first great civilization. Ancient Egypt was, to the ...

This centrally located historic property on the banks of the Nile River is tucked away between the famous Egyptian Museum with its collection of archaeological treasures, the headquarters of the ...