Here's something that might surprise you: ancient Egyptians called the river "Ar" or "Aur," meaning "black," a reference to the rich, dark sediment that the Nile's waters carried from the Horn of ...
Ancient Karnak rose from a landscape shaped as much by water as by stone. For more than a century, excavations have focused ...
The inundation of water was more than just provision for crops and fields: the Egyptians called the event the coming of Hapy, god of abundance and fertility. THE PERFECT AMOUNTEgyptians needed the ...
While searching the Nile River, a team of Egyptian and French archaeologists has discovered carvings, paintings and miniatures depicting ancient pharaohs. The underwater expedition took place near ...
An underwater archaeological mission in the Nile River near Aswan, Egypt, recovered a handful of long-lost artifacts. When the building of the Aswan High Dam in the 1960s flooded the area, UNESCO ...
Scuba divers found several 2,300-year-old rock carvings linked to Egyptian pharaohs under the Nile River, archaeologists said and photos show. Photo from Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...
"Originally published by Bloomsbury, London, in 2014." It was Herodotus who first called Egypt "the gift of the river." Now renowned Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson takes us along the Nile to reveal how ...
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