The history of Black Africa will remain suspended ... People populated other continents by moving either through the Sahara or the Nile Valley. In the period before the start of the great Egyptian ...

So it's no accident that one of the greatest and longest-lasting civilisations in history, grew up along the banks of one the world'slongest rivers. The River Nile is more than six thousand five ...

The Emperor Nero sent out a Roman expedition to find the Nile's source some 2,000 years before Victorian explorers reached ...

In the 1850s he embarked on two major expeditions there, the first, to Somalia, inspiring the second, to East Africa, during which he endeavoured to locate the source of the White Nile. This book of ...

The Nile was the lifeblood of ancient Egypt, and its inundation was the pivotal annual event in Egyptian civilization. Every summer, between May and September, the river gradually swelled until it ...

This is the first volume on the history of the Nile Delta to cover the c.7000 years from the Predynastic period to the twentieth century. It offers a multidisciplinary approach engaging with varied ...

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