Seasonal flooding has long been part of the lifestyle of pastoral communities around the Sudd, the largest wetlands in Africa ...

For thousands of years, they referred to its annual flooding as the "Gift of the Nile." Each summer, like clockwork, the river would take possession of a strip of land on either side of its banks.

For that reason, almost all the drinking water and water required for farming comes from the Nile River. If you know that the Nile floods every year, you may think that the Egyptian people will have ...

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Now, former flood lands are green fields year-round ... describing how the Nile was tamed. The river is formed by its two tributaries, the Blue Nile, originating from Lake Tana in Ethiopia ...

The film also covers the significance of the Nile's floods, the establishment of a ... Keywords Ancient Egypt, Sphinx, pyramids, agriculture, Nile River, hieroglyphics, papyrus, mummification ...

Some believe that this is the River Ghion – the legendary river ... instead the fear here is when and if the annual flood of the Blue Nile will appear. Some years, the monsoon rain does not ...

The Ancient Egyptians called The Nile 'Ar' which meant black, because that was the colour of the soil and silt left behind after theflooding. Some years though the river didn't flood properly ...

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