The Nile is only slightly longer than the Amazon River, for example, and in 2007 a team of Brazilian scientists announced they had remeasured the Amazon and found it to be 6,800 km (4,225 miles ...

A now-extinct stretch of the Nile once flowed near Egypt’s Great Pyramid and likely played a key role in the construction of ancient monuments, according to new research.

Researchers have explored how the River Nile evolved over the past 11,500 ... This shift in regional climate may have further combined with changing human impacts on the land to make the soil more ...

Ancient Egypt might have to thank the River Nile for all its success after new research into the famous river highlights the role it played during the historic time period. A study from the ...

Humans A lost branch of the river Nile flowed past the pyramids of Egypt. Soil core samples show an ancient riverbed under the desert near many Egyptian pyramids, revealing an ancient waterway ...

This work further cements the importance of waterways to Egypt’s prosperity during the 1,000-year period when the pyramids were built, starting about 4,700 years ago. “For millennia, the Nile River ...

The Pyramids of Khufu, left, and Khafre looming in Egypt. Scientists reconstructed the 8,000-year rise and fall of the Khufu Branch of the Nile River, a tributary no longer in existence.

A now-extinct stretch of the Nile once flowed near Egypt’s Great Pyramid and likely played a key role in the construction of ancient monuments, according to new research.