Here are a few reasons why this river is so influential—and interesting. The Nile flows north for about 6,650 kilometers (4,132 miles), from the African Great Lakes through the Sahara desert ...

Egypt is rewriting the rules of survival in one of the planet’s harshest environments with its groundbreaking New Delta ...

Sand dunes in the Sahara desert in Africa. The Sahara Desert is the world ... Aswan Dam, across the river Nile in Egypt, is the world's largest embankment dam. A dam is a barrier that blocks ...

The Nile was at ... have filled up the river’s channel. Increases in sand deposition are most likely related to periods of desertification in the Sahara desert in North Africa.

Whenever we think of the Sahara Desert, the images that come to mind are vast stretches of sand and extreme dryness. But do you know that the desert was not always this arid and once had water and ...

Egypt’s Great Pyramid and other ancient monuments at Giza exist on an isolated strip of land at the edge of the Sahara Desert ... map of the long-lost ancient branch of the Nile River.” ...

Thirty-one pyramids in Egypt – including the Giza pyramid complex – may originally have been built along a now buried branch of the River ... harsh Sahara Desert, far from where the Nile ...

The Nile River is the second-longest river in the world. It provides crucial resources to 11 countries, including South Sudan, the world's youngest nation. As dawn breaks each day over the Nile ...