However, continuous flooding in Adjumani, Moyo, and Obongi districts has resulted in the loss of livelihoods and farmlands.

Archaeologists have discovered ancient Egyptian artworks in the depths of the River Nile following the flooding of land full of archaeological remains. The country's Ministry of Tourism and ...

Waterfall on the Blue Nile river in West Gojjam, Amhara Region, Ethiopia. This region is threatened by natural hazards such as flooding due to climate change. Global warming as well as recent ...

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.

Professor of Geology and Water Resources at Cairo University, Abbas Sharaqi, noted that the flooding of some agricultural land on the banks of the Nile River in Egypt is a dire sign of Ethiopia’s lack ...

Though the dam, completed in 1970, generates much-needed electricity and controls Nile River flooding, it also keeps nutrient sediment from replenishing the eroding delta. Add climate change to ...

The Ancient Egyptians also called the river Ar or Aur, which means "black," in reference to the black silt left behind after the yearly flooding. The Nile River was central to the Ancient ...

Similar processes have occurred at the mouth of the modern Mississippi river in the United States ... by sediment failure triggered by flooding of the Nile as recently as 1,250 years ago.

posits that ancient Egyptian engineers cut a small canal across from the site of the pyramid to the Nile’s Khufu branch, along the river’s western edge of the river’s flood plain ...

They thought of its regular flooding, so essential for the ... a relatively matter-of-fact attitude to the river... In order to appreciate the Nile's position in antiquity, we should see it ...

In and around the city, flooding of the Nile River has killed almost one hundred people, destroyed more than 1,000 houses and the incidence of water-borne diseases is now also rising. My ...

It reveals that wetter climates led to very strong and weak floods and a highly instable river system, which may have rendered the Nile valley uninhabitable. Although intensified, flood ...