The tomb, adorned with Egyptian-style relief carvings, dates to the second century B.C. Matt Stirn Around 1500 B.C., Egypt’s pharaohs marched south along the Nile and, after conquering Kerma ...

In a discovery that has sent shockwaves through the archaeological and historical communities, an ancient book was unearthed beneath the Nile River ... ever recorded in Egyptian history, raising ...

The most famed collection of such elaborate tombs—the Valley of the Kings—lies on the Nile's west bank near ... discoveries may be found in period Egyptian writings that mention notables ...

Merer, who accounted for his time in half-day increments, mentions stopping at Tura, a town along the Nile famous for its ... Zahi Hawass, the Egyptian archaeologist, and formerly the chief ...

Every year in late summer the Nile would flood, expanding onto the Egyptian delta plains before receding again. As scientists began to investigate what had caused the drop in land fertility ...

A cruise down the Nile and a few days of discovery in Cairo ... However, as if by way of consolation, the Grand Egyptian Museum had just opened less than a mile down the road.

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Ancient Egyptian person: Ok, we’re good at farming, but we’re not perfect. The ancient Egyptians based their farming around the annual flooding of the River Nile. There were three seasons in ...

Updated Oct. 15 at 1:29 p.m. A colossal dam is near completion on Ethiopia’s stretch of the Nile, a project so large ... has taken the side of Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi, whom ...

Set against an epic landscape of sweeping Egyptian desert vistas and the majestic Giza pyramids, this tale of unbridled passion and incapacitating jealousy features a cosmopolitan group of ...

Ancient Egyptian person: Ok, we’re good at farming, but we’re not perfect. The ancient Egyptians based their farming around the annual flooding of the River Nile. There were three seasons in ...

However, as if by way of consolation, the Grand Egyptian Museum had just opened ... The centrepiece of our trip was to be a ...