The pyramids at the site are more than 2,300 years old The authorities in Sudan are trying to protect the country's ancient pyramids from flooding as heavy rains have caused the nearby River Nile ...

The ancient Egyptians based their farming around the annual flooding of the River Nile. There were three seasons in the Egyptian calendar: Akhet Also called the Season of the Inundation.

The Nile was the lifeblood of ancient Egypt, and its inundation was ... dire consequences followed. An insufficient flood meant that the water did not reach all arable land, often resulting ...

The Nile’s annual flooding – which takes place August-October – is caused by heavy rains in the Ethiopian highlands. Over the past year, according to a previous statement by the ministry ...

An underwater archaeological mission in the Nile ... and save ancient artifacts, time was short and the organization couldn’t ...

The Emperor Nero sent out a Roman expedition to find the Nile's source some 2,000 years before Victorian explorers reached ...

In our series of letters from African journalists, Zeinab Mohammed Salih looks at what Sudan makes of Ethiopia's controversial Nile dam. Unprecedented flooding in Sudan this year led to the deaths ...