It is likely that settlement took place ... their livestock eastwards to the Nile Valley, joining societies who were already exploiting the resources of the river. By about 3,000 years BC the ...

Ancient Egypt might have to thank the River Nile for all its success ... As well as, of course, human settlements in the area. The shift to the Nile seems to have have occurred roughly exactly ...

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.

It helped people to easily access the water from the River Nile. They built a system of canals to bring the water to the crops a process that's called irrigation. So it's no accident that one of ...

Such tools are helping environmental scientists map the ancient Nile ... and shape of the ancient river branch could help ...

But the second-longest river in the world is currently facing ... which supplies the majority of the water for the Nile, may dry up as a result of drought, evaporation, and slow tilts in the ...

A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent: On Saturday, this young man jumps into the Nile River to escape ... an informal settlement of Nairobi, as part of an ...