In an amazing twist, an underwater archaeological mission near Aswan, Egypt, has dug up some long-lost treasures from the ...

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.

Seasonal flooding has long been part of the lifestyle of pastoral communities around the Sudd, the largest wetlands in Africa, in the Nile River floodplain. But since the 1960s the swamp has kept ...

The UW department of history presented its 50th anniversary History Lecture Series on Jan. 22, hosted by UW associate ...

The Ancient Egyptians called The Nile 'Ar' which meant black, because that was the colour of the soil and silt left behind after theflooding. Some years though the river didn't flood properly ...