TheBlue Nilebegins at Lake Tana, Ethiopia, and joins theWhite Nilesouth of Egypt in Khartoum, Sudan. Together, they make up the longest river in the world, the blue thread that binds Africa. When you think of Ancient Egypt, you probably imaginethe Great Sphinxand the limestone pyramids of ...
Life in ancient Egypt Ancient Egypt can be thought of as an oasis in the desert of northeastern Africa, dependent on the annual inundation of the Nile River to support its agricultural population. The country’s chief wealth came from the fertile floodplain of the Nile valley, where the river...
Egypt, country located in the northeastern corner of Africa. Egypt’s heartland, the Nile River valley and delta, was the home of one of the principal civilizations of the ancient Middle East and was the site of one of the world’s earliest urban and lit
Pop Quiz: 18 Things to Know About Ancient Egypt In addition to being characterized by a Horus name, the king was typically depicted with a hovering form of Horus above his head. Sometimes Horus is shown as a winged sun disk, representing the Horus of Behdet, a town in theNile Riverdelta...
Great Pyramid of Giza,ancient Egyptianpyramidthat is the largest of the threePyramids of Giza, located on a rocky plateau on the west bank of theNile Riverin northernEgypt. It was built byKhufu(Cheops), the second king of Egypt’s 4thdynasty(c. 2543–c. 2436bce), and was completed in...
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young adventurers of the tribe of the Nasamones living on the desert edge ofCyrenaicainNorth Africa, who journeyed southwest for many months across the desert, reaching a great river flowing from west to east; this presumably was theNiger, although Herodotus thought it to be the Upper Nile. ...
Nubia, ancient region in northeastern Africa, extending approximately from the Nile River valley (near the first cataract in Upper Egypt) eastward to the shores of the Red Sea, southward to about Khartoum (in what is now Sudan), and westward to the Libya
Egypt to the chotts of Algeria. In the southern Sahara, downwarping of the African Shield created large basins occupied by Cenozoic lakes and seas, such as the ancient Mega-Chad. The serirs and regs differ in character in various regions of the desert but are believed to represent Cenozoic ...
Life was a function of the economic conditions of the moment, of pastures to follow and to find, and thus the patriarchs moved back and forth between the land of Canaan and the Nile River delta. They remained shepherds and never became cultivators. It was in Mamre that Abraham received ...