“Even though many efforts to reconstruct the early Nile waterways have been conducted, they have largely been confined to soil sample collections from small sites, which has led to the mapping ...

We have confirmed that a certain increase in the yields of some major crops could be obtained while reducing the water requirement in the heavy clay soil of the Nile Delta by applying drip irrigation ...

The clay gave the soil both its resilience and fertility. But where had it gone? Rewind 10 years to the building of the Aswan Dam across the Nile in southern Egypt during the 1960s. This ...

specifically a tributary of the Nile, to transport the massive stones to the desert. To validate this hypothesis, researchers first had to obtain and study ancient soil samples from the Giza ...

Farming was the basis of the entire Ancient Egyptian civilisation. The flooding of the Nile and the fertile soil allowed them to build a wealthy empire. The ancient Egyptians were amongst the ...