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.

The Egyptians ... agricultural output. In 1970, they completed the Aswan High Dam, which stretches across the Nile 600 miles south of Cairo. The dam has effectively stopped the river's annual ...

It almost never rains in Egypt, where approximately 95% of the land is desert. For that reason, almost all the drinking water and water required for farming comes from the Nile River ... of ...

An underwater archaeological mission in the Nile River near Aswan, Egypt ... ancient artifacts, time was short and the organization couldn’t locate everything that had been swept away in the ...

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 film also covers the significance of the Nile's floods, the establishment ... Keywords Ancient Egypt, Sphinx, pyramids, agriculture, Nile River, hieroglyphics, papyrus, mummification, pharaohs ...

one of Egypt’s oldest cities about 300 miles south of Cairo and roughly six miles from the Nile River. Ancient Egyptian mythology held that Abydos served as the burial place for Osiris ...

Artifacts from the early Stone Age, particularly pebble tools, have been found from Sudan to Egypt ... river. By about 3,000 years BC the fertile sediments left by the annual flooding of the Nile ...