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 ...

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 ...

An underwater archaeological mission in the Nile River near Aswan, Egypt ... ancient artifacts, time was short and the ...

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 ...

The U.N. Food and Agriculture ... together form the Upper Nile, the mighty, desert-cleaving waterway that gave birth to ancient kingdoms such as Kush and Pharaonic Egypt. Finally, the Nile reaches ...