The Flooding of the Nile refers to an annual flooding cycle in Egypt that dates back to ancient times. Today it is celebrated by Egyptians as an annual holiday for two weeks starting August 15, known as Wafaa El-Nil. It is also celebrated in the Coptic Church by ceremonially throwing a ...
Baetens, GertGeophysical Research AbstractsManning, J. G., Ludlow, F., Stine, A. R., Boos, W. R., Sigl, M., and Marlon, J. R.: Volcanic suppression of Nile summer flooding 5 triggers revolt and constrains interstate conflict in ancient Egypt, Nat. Commun., 8, 900, doi: 10.1038/...
Volcanic eruptions provide tests of human and natural system sensitivity to abrupt shocks because their repeated occurrence allows the identification of systematic relationships in the presence of random variability. Here we show a suppression of Nile su
Located 125 miles northeast of Sudan’s capital,Khartoum, Meroe sits just 1,650 feet away from the banks of the Nile. Beginning in the sixth century B.C., the ancient city served as the capital of the Kingdom of Kush, an independent empire just south of Egypt, writes Isma’il Kushkus...
The southern Levantine sub-basin and particularly the Nile Delta coast are of special economic and social importance. This is mainly because of these areas’ high population densities, high poverty levels, and diversified economic activities, which include natural gas production, fishing, electricity ge...
Diagenesis and reservoir-quality evolution of incised-valley sandstones: evidence from the Abu Madi gas reservoirs (Upper Miocene), the Nile delta basin, Egypt J. Sediment. Res., 75 (2005), pp. 572-584 CrossrefView in ScopusGoogle Scholar Schultz, 1984 A. Schultz Subaerial debris flow deposit...
During the Quaternary period, the eastern Sahara's hydroclimate oscillated between wet and dry intervals. These oscillations caused drastic changes in precipitation rates, often associated with ancient human migrations. In particular, significant migration of riparian populations from the Nile Valley to ...