New research says that a rare solar eclipse in 2471 B.C. may have sparked ancient Egypt's surprising shift away from sun ...

"It is always difficult to establish if the eclipses were seen in the ancient past as bad omens or good omens." ...

“Everyone is worried about the dam, not just me,” said Mohamed Abdelkhaleq, 69, a lifelong farmer in Egypt’s Nile Delta, where two-thirds of the country’s food is grown. Even without the ...

However, in 1996, the remains of 9,000 bodies were discovered in the Nile Delta, with evidence suggesting a famine. Who is right? This is prime BBC2 fare.

This project was the first to precisely measure the water movement and estimate the water balance in the irrigated fields in the Nile Delta. * This provides basic data for adapting new approaches for ...

Inspired by the secret to the Nile Delta’s fertility, engineers are using a concoction of clay, water and local soils to grow fruits in the desert. In March this year, just as countries across ...

bp plc discovered gas at the El Fayoum-5 well at the North Alexandria Offshore Concession in Egypt’s West Nile Delta. El Fayoum-5 encountered four prospective gas reservoirs. The discovery will ...

Rising sea levels fueled by climate change could swallow some of Africa’s most iconic coastal cities by 2100. Two cities – ...