Ghoneim and her colleagues refer to this extinct branch of the Nile river as Ahramat, which is Arabic for pyramids. Ancient Egyptians likely used the now-extinct Ahramat Branch to build many pyramids.

Learn about the migration routes that ancient humans took when traveling out of Africa and how rising sea levels may have ...

A trip to Esna is also best combined with a visit to the cities of Luxor or Aswan, or a Nile cruise, which will show you the most important monuments and locations on the bank of the famous river.

Thirty-one different Egyptian pyramids appear to have been built along a branch of the Nile River that dried up millennia ago, according to new research published today in Communications Earth ...

More than 30 pyramids in Egypt, including in Giza, may have been built along a branch of the Nile that has long since disappeared, a new study suggests.

The Nile River Cruise will shed some light on the divine essence of this miraculous country that has survived for more than 5000 years across the majestic cities of Luxor and Aswan.

According to the study, the Ahramat branch extended about 64 km (40 miles) in a north-south direction, roughly parallel to the modern Nile but between 2.5 and 10.25 km (1.6 and 6.4 miles) west of it.

It’s nearing the end of my 11-day Egypt experience, and there’s always something new to see. It’s easy to sit on the deck of the sleek Viking river ship—one of six in the cruise line’s ...