The Nile River drainage basin is the largest of North Africa, draining runoff from the eastern Sahara, Ethiopian highlands and equatorial East Africa into the Eastern Mediterranean. Today ...

Egypt’s Great Pyramid and other ancient monuments at Giza exist on an isolated strip of land at the edge of the Sahara Desert ... found evidence that the Nile River once flowed near these ...

THE WET CONDITIONS of the Sahara provided a suitable habitat for people and wildlife – unlike the Nile Valley, which was virtually inhospitable to humans because of the constantly higher river ...

But climate change meant that the Sahara became drier ... livestock eastwards to the Nile Valley, joining societies who were already exploiting the resources of the river. By about 3,000 years ...

But climate change meant that the Sahara became drier ... livestock eastwards to the Nile Valley, joining societies who were already exploiting the resources of the river. By about 3,000 years ...

(A change in the river's course has ... the plateau drops down to the Nile, with Cairo beyond; and to the south, the Menkaure Pyramid and the vastness of the Sahara. Can you find the Solar Barque ...

Two major rivers also cross parts of the desert - the Niger and the Nile, the latter being the longest river in the world. Geologists believe the Sahara has been a desert for millions of years ...

What is the longest river in the world, the Nile or the Amazon? It’s a question that has fuelled debate for years. Now, an expedition into the South American jungle aims to settle it for good.