By about 3,000 years BC the fertile sediments left by the annual flooding of the Nile left a long strip of arable land supporting an estimated 1.8 million people. The key populations appear to ...

Floods arrive without warning; droughts linger longer than expected. Yet amid these rising uncertainties, a collective tide ...

We even measure the level of the River Nile to see how much flooding we can expect. We have three seasons: Akhet, the flooding season, Peret, the growing season and Shemu, the harvesting season.

By about 3,000 years BC the fertile sediments left by the annual flooding of the Nile left a long strip of arable land supporting an estimated 1.8 million people. The key populations appear to ...