A now-extinct stretch of the Nile River once flowed close to Egypt’s Great Pyramid and likely played a key role in the construction of ancient monuments before disappearing, according to new ...

The existence of the river would explain why the 31 pyramids were built in a chain along a now inhospitable desert strip in the Nile Valley between 4,700 and 3,700 years ago.

Human History Egypt’s Pyramids May Have Been Built on a Long-Lost Branch of the Nile River Dozens of Egypt's most famous pyramids may have been built thanks to this long-lost transit corridor.

Ghoneim says she hopes to continue piecing together a map of the Nile’s former life by further studying the Ahramat and other river channels that may be lost beneath the desert.

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The Nile is only slightly longer than the Amazon River, for example, and in 2007 a team of Brazilian scientists announced they had remeasured the Amazon and found it to be 6,800 km (4,225 miles ...

Further down the river Nile in Egypt’s Minya governorate, around 250 kilometers south of Cairo, farmers huddle around a thin stream of canal water, drawing water to irrigate their land.

The Nile River, the world's longest river, is Egypt's beating heart as it has served as a lifeline for Egyptians since the beginning of time. One of the best ways to experience Cairo is by paying ...

Now, Nile Taxi is reinvigorating an old practice of using the river for transport by offering speedboat taxi rides to commuters on the ancient waterway. "More than 50% of the time, it saves more ...

But Egypt and Sudan are worried that the dam will curtail their share of the Nile’s waters as global warming and less rainfall also threaten to lower the river's level.