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.

It almost never rains in Egypt, where approximately 95% of the land is desert. For that reason, almost all the drinking water and water required for farming comes from the Nile River. If you know that ...

This video gives pupils an understanding of the vital role the River Nile played in the success of Ancient Egypt. It begins by exploring a visual source of a farm scene from Ancient Egypt ...

The Egyptian Museum in Cairo’s Tahrir Square is bringing history to life with an exhibition exploring food in ancient Egypt, ...

Among the papyri was the journal of a previously unknown official named Merer, who led a crew of some 200 men who traveled from one end of Egypt to ... taking it up the Nile River to Giza.

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RIGHT: Drip irrigation has been implemented throughout Egyptian farming areas ... put it in simpler terms: “The Nile River must not be monopolized by one state. For Egypt, the Nile water ...

The story begins over nine thousand years ago, in the vast expanses of the Sahara. In Egypt then, instead of today's landscape of arid desert, the Sahara was a lush, open savannah with gazelles, ...