the nile

The ancient Egyptians used to move bees up and down the Nile on rafts, so this idea of a movable bee force is not new at all.

On the bank of the Nile River, the donkey halted, and the princess rushed up to the prince.

We had not yet decided whether we were up to a two-day sail up the Nile in a 20-foot wooden boat called a felucca1.

Grain agriculture was possible only in a few places where a river like the Nile could be harnessed.

Such a stark contrast between the dark desolate lifeless desert of northern Africa and the Nile River teeming with life along its shores.

She said she believes this is only the beginning, even hinting further finds could be buried deep below the Nile River.

Mohammed Elhassan, walking home from his local mosque in the Nile city of Wadi Halfa, took out his mobile phone and snapped a few photos.

In a statement, the ministry said the woman, from a province in the Nile Delta, was admitted to a hospital on Saturday and died Monday.

ONCE upon a time a child was born to a king and queen who ruled over a great country on the banks of the Nile River.

One morning the prince and his dog were out as usual, and in chasing their game they drew near the bank of the Nile River.

Grain agriculture was only possible in a few places where a river, like the Nile, could be harnessed.

We are entering now upon a thousand years of warfare between the once quite separated civilizations of Mesopotamia and the Nile.

We'd been cruising languidly down the Nile for days, watching the sun sink behind the date palms each evening in a rose-and-lemon sky.

But of course everything else about the Nile is different, like a scene from the Babar children's books. It has not been tampered with.

That's right. Last night, I found a book about the Nile, and there were some pictures which were really pretty.

In the measure that you learn how to use water to cultivate, then you're going to be able to spread beyond the Nile.

It is not surprising that Egyptians should feel rather like driftwood on the Nile, accelerating towards one of the great river's cataracts.

The area along the west bank of the Nile River is known as a burial ground for ancient Egyptian royalty.

Mineralogical studies reveal the shard to be a fragment of a wine jar exported from the Nile valley to Israel .

The temple of Queen Hatshepsut was one such unique mortuary temple in the west bank of the Nile in Luxor.

The Nile perch is nefarious yet applauded (in the short run). Don't be afraid to call it when you see it.

Over the next several thousand years, their distant temple across the Nile River.

Then behold, seven other cows came up after them from the Nile, ugly and gaunt, and they stood by the other cows on the bank of the Nile.

When Sirius appeared in the sky each year, the Nile generally started to flood and bring fertility to the land.

This makes Luxor a hub of activity and history, and the Nile Palace hotel is in easy walking distance of it all.

The ever-cheerful UNDP said in 1999 that the basins of the Nile, Niger, Volta and Zambezi were all potential flashpoints.

For decades it had anengineer posted at Uganda's Owen Falls dam on the Nile, close to Kitra's island, monitoring the outflow.

The older sister of Moses who kept a sisterly eye on him while he was in the papyrus reeds on the side of the Nile river.

Then the sun gave me birth, and I rose and walked upon the banks of the Nile, Singing with the days and dreaming with the nights.

The case of the Nile is reversed because the British colonials who controlled the region wanted to guarantee water for Egyptian agriculture.

The Nile's geology may be favourable for dam building, but the flow of money is not.

In Agouza, families with young children in tow marched into clouds of tear gas, toward the bridge over the Nile that led to Tahrir Square.

The ancient Egyptians moved clay hives, probably on rafts, down the Nile to follow the bloom and nectar flow as it moved toward Cairo.

The Ugandan project, Fruits of the Nile, harnesses the power of the sun to dry fruit.

Day by day the sea is eating the land - the dam has stopped the sediment of the Nile from replenishing the shoreline.

Egypt's population and agriculture mainly in the Nile Delta coastal and estuarine areas, is one of the cradles of human culture.

The Hotel is at the center of the First Residence apartments and shops on the west bank of the Nile.

I grew up in Maadi, a suburb south Cairo on the eastern bank of the Nile River.

At my domicile, the Nile Hilton, Fahmy told me what the program would be.

In the Nile basin, actually involves the question of water resources.

Today we visit the Nile River valley to explore one of the greatest civilizations in human history.

A teenage boy tried to snatch the banner from the young man's hand, almost knocking him off his perch and into the Nile.

The towering headquarters of Mr. Mubarak's party is now nothing more than a burnt hulk along the Nile River.

and because there was a need, before the High Dam tamed the Nile, to live beyond the reach of the annual floods.

Pharaoh's daughter went down to the Nile to take a bath. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her slave girl to get it.

After them, seven other cows, ugly and gaunt, came up out of the Nile and stood beside those on the riverbank.

The desolate rocky place on the western bank of the Nile River near Luxor was supposed to be the ultimate hidden burial.

It was still starlight when she left the palace on a snow-white donkey, and rode away from the Nile River straight to the west.

Replacing the Nile: Are Anthropogenic Nutrients Providing the Fertility Once Brought to the Mediterranean by a Great River?

He had conquered Egypt and had been worshipped by the people of the Nile valley as the son and heir of the Pharaohs .

The theory says that the name tennis derives from the Egyptian town of Tinnis alongside the Nile.

The Nile enters Egypt at the top, winding its way down until exiting via the fertile delta into the Mediterranean Sea under Lower Egypt.

The road followed the course of the Nile, now passing through the fields, now drawing a black line separating them from the desert.

When the Nile keeps its promise, the desert is transformed and Egypt becomes a paradise once more.

Ramses ii in the Nile delta ordered a new city northeast of the capital, and its named cultivates er - ramses (meaning ramses palace).

Wherever you plunge your hand in to the waters of the Nile, you'll be reenacting a ritual that goes back to the very dawn of civilization.

The town of Bor, half an hour by plane down the Nile from Juba, was once a busy trading post but now feels on a different planet.

"The Nile is everything to us, it's liquid gold, " explained the 25-year-old as he oversaw the day's mango harvest.

The Nile River carves a fertile scar through this arid part of Egypt, providing a lifeline in an otherwise barren region.

And the frogs will be gone from you and from your houses and from your servants and from your people and will be only in the Nile.

And, in my dreams I hope to see my Deana, my Angel of the Nile, looking down upon us and smiling in approval.

Angelic voices hailed the coming of the 'Universal Lord' on this occasion, which marked the rising of the Nile flood.

The great characteristic of the Nile is the regularity of its floods.

How doth the little crocodile improve his shining tail, and pour the waters of the Nile on every golden scale!

He feels nostalgic about a mystery girl who named "Daughter of the Nile" , but unrequited love age weakened his great aspiration.

These floods have been very useful because they irrigate the Nile Delta and deposit a rich layer of topsoil used for growing crops.

Along the Nile River, the autumn sun glowed especially softly and date palm trees stretched arms enthusiastically.

One cannot think of Africa without thinking of Egypt, the cradle of an ancient civilization, nor of Egypt without the Nile.

The Nile crocodile rolled its eggs gently in its teeth to help them hatch.

Cars honked in joyful processions along the Nile, impromptu parades clogged the streets, and songs of freedom filled the night air.

Pawero and Paser are of equal rank, one responsible for the sacred tombs across the Nile, the other for the holy city of Thebes.

We collapsed at a shaded table overlooking the Nile and asked the waiter to introduce us to a man called "Captain Washington. "

Superman is not only sent to Earth from the heavens , or Krypton , but he's sent in a pod, much like Moses was on the Nile .

See the pyramids along the Nile. . . Just remember darling, all the while, you belong to me.

I HAs coming amidst you since Egypt , On the banks of the Nile , which too get a maximum old civilization .

Hidden in the desert canyons west of the Nile, the Valley of the Kings holds the tombs of King Tut and his royal relatives.

The explorer failed in his attempt to find the source of the Nile.

is considered to be the world's greatest open air museum consisting of excellently preserved monuments on both sides of the Nile.

Located at the mouth of the Nile delta, Memphis thrived for centures as a center of trade, commerce, religion and royalty.

In the Nile basin countries, we have investment, but I for the first time I heard that very fresh.

The Nile is gorgeous in Aswan, and the city is home to a wonderful museum, market and breathtaking antiquities.

Ever since civilization first sprang forth here, Egyptians have clustered along the Nile's silt-rich banks.

Death on the Nile is one of the classic works of Agatha Christie.

In Uganda, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan and Egypt, the Nile basin has some of Africa's most militaristic countries.

The Nile valley is not Silicon Valley, at least not yet, and venture capital is scarce.

THE Nile flows placidly in one direction, but the tides of Egyptian politics, now at full flood, have not been so predictable lately.

Without them, rising bread prices could undermine Egypt's revolution of hope and competition for the Nile's water could turn deadly.

She had invitations to Italy, cruises along the Nile.

In the ancient tomb paintings of the Nile Valley, Egypt's nobility often appears lithe, beautiful, and, above all, healthy.

The land is poorer, because the mud that used to come with the Nile flood has stopped.

Growing water demand, driven by population growth and foreign land and water acquisitions, are straining the Nile's natural limits.

It reserved the entire dry season flow of the Nile for Egyptand allowed Cairo to veto any water development project in the Nilebasin .

One cannot think of Africa without thinking of Egypt , the cradle of ancient civilization, nor of Egypt without the Nile .

What a pity we could not follow the course of the Nile for a few more hours.

The Nile River is shared by ten different states; Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan Egypt, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi and the DR Congo.

The Nile River nurtured resident along the river, the arid region has been forming one "the green corridor" .

The Nile, from which electricity is produced, no longer destroys villages and crops.

The Egyptians strove against with the Romans for the possession of the Nile Valley .

The Nile, which used to flood every year, now runs more regularly below the dam.

The large river best known to the ancient Greeks was the Nile of Egypt.

Life was returning to old rhythms in the working-class neighborhoods of Kitkat and Imbaba on the west bank of the Nile.

One of the world's four major ancient civilizations of Egypt, the Nile is nurtured, the development of its splendid ancient culture.

We feel sure that Auchinleck will infuse a new energy and precision into the defence of the Nile Valley.

One group on the Nile island of Zamalek was ripping up sheets to make armbands that they said soldiers had instructed them to wear.

The fishermen will groan and lament, all who cast hooks into the Nile; those who throw nets on the water will pine away.

No other country is so dependent on a single lifeline. Egypt's very soil was born in the Nile's annual flood.

The longest river in the world, the Nile, flows through the north-western area of Africa, and then into the Mediterranean Sea.

the capital of Egypt and the largest city in Africa; a major port just S of the Nile Delta; formerly the home of the Pharaohs .

I was standing on the bank of the Nile.

The Nile valley is a fertile one where there is an abundance of water and sun, elements which, the ancient Egyptian believed, were gods.

Egyptians of all ages jammed the banks of the Nile and the squares of Cairo waving flags, lighting off fireworks and shouting 'freedom. '

By frame 6, the Nile River has become the focus of the image, though its distinctive triangular delta is partially covered with cloud.

Where do they get ready for a trip up the Nile?

South of Cairo, is the width of 3 to 16 kilometers of the Nile green corridor, commonly known as Upper Egypt.

Standing on a sandy beach at the mouth of the Rosetta branch of the Nile, I was puzzled by what seemed a ghost town.

Lower Egypt is to the north and is that part where the Nile delta flows into the Mediterranean Sea.

The Nile Delta is home to rich, low-lying farmland, as well as tourism and shipping industries.

And the furies repressed by this cruel, effective cop on the banks of the Nile came America's way.

I would fly to Egypt to see the pyramids and the Nile River.

freshwater catfish of the Nile and tropical central Africa having an electric organ.

At that time, his son heir to the boat ride at tower confit to lead a massive imperial fleet remains of the Nile will father sent to Thebes.

Now, we sail about one hundred kilometers north. This gives us time to enjoy the river scenes along the Nile.

Farther down the Nile sits Luxor, a town filled with ancient monuments.

The eerie emptiness will soon seem less like a scene from Death on the Nile.

Tens of thousands of Nubians were moved from their homeland along the Nile - in southern Egypt and northern Sudan - because of the dam.

When Napoleon invaded Egypt in 1798, General Denon took part of the army down the Nile.

Since rainfall in Egypt is negligible to nonexistent, its agriculture is totally dependent on the Nile.

tall sedge of the Nile valley yielding fiber that served many purposes in historic times.

It is simply the Nile. It has flowed from Lake Victoria. It will flow on to Alexandria .

If fissile Sudan finally splits, that may also have repercussions for the Nile.

Driving southward from Cairo into the Nile Valley, I entered a landscape that owed little to the present era.

6 p. m. - Sail into the sunset on a felucca, Egypt's traditional wooden sailboat, and enjoy a tranquil moment on the Nile.

People help to pull truck out of the Nile river.

Alexandria and Port Said between the alluvial plain of the Nile Delta, an area of about 20000 ~ 40000 square kilometers.

The annual flooding is caused by the melting snows on the high Ethiopian plateau, from where the Nile originates.

Today, rice production takes place only in the Lower Valley of the Nile River.

Statues cracking and toppling over. The Nile drying up. Single-handedly, you will manage to bring the greatest kingdom on earth to ruin.

Aswan is the starting point for the journey along the Nile.

A prediction about the impact of sea level increases on people living in the Nile Delta was taken from an unpublished student dissertation.

The main Egyptian railway runs parallel to the Nile, and traverses nearly 560 miles between Aswan and Cairo.

The Nile River gave birth to the immortal civilization of the Egyptians.

The new dam controls the waters of the Nile so that they now run regularly all through the year.

Long-Range Forecasting of the Nile River Flows Using Climatic Forcing.

In Egypt, however, decades of bellicose rhetoric about the Nile have made the river's water an explosive issue.

They use far more efficient irrigation techniques and often rely on abundant ground water rather than the Nile.

The Nile's water irrigates the silt-rich land it has created. . .

So someone said: einhorn and is the bounty of the Nile.

In "Death on the Nile" , Linet Ridgeway is the young and beautiful heiress to an immense fortune, but she has a lot of enemies.

A lateen-rigged sailboat called a felucca plies the Nile River in fading light near Aswan, Egypt.

But officials point out that nine-tenths of Egypt's 82m people are squeezed into the Nile valley, an area smaller than Denmark.

They spoke of the river with admiration and called Egypt "the gift of the Nile" .

Afterward, roaming over many lands, she reached at last the banks of the Nile.

Along the way the Nile is dotted with islands, including El Gezirah, located in Egyptian capital's centre.

Interesting Fact: The Nile croc is the largest African crocodile species.

Thesticking point between the two groups is a question going back tocolonial times: who owns the Nile's water?

Stories about the Nile have come down to us.

It is to China what the Nile is to Egypt: the cradle of civilization, a symbol of enduring glory, a force of nature both feared and revered.

Egypt, wrote the Greek historian Hecataeus, is the gift of the Nile.

Yet the Nile has been changed by modern man in a way not yet fully understood.

Another example, the Nile, looks more worrying but is perhaps more hopeful.

This busy road of death runs alongside the serenity of the Nile river.

Her aspect of being a fertility goddess was not just linked to the Nile.

For centuries the ancient Egyptians worshipped the Nile.

Egypt capital Cairo, located at the Nile River delta apex south of 14 kilometers place, northing Mediterranean Sea 200 kilometers.

Tombs and temples of ancient Egypt follow the Nile well into the Sudan.

Act III On the eve of Amneris's wedding, Ramfis and Amneris enter a temple on the banks of the Nile to pray.

There is some evidence for their weakening the flow of the Nile and disrupting monsoons.

The Nile, flowing through nine countries, is the longest river on earth.

In this way, a vast area of fertile soil has been built up at the mouth of the Nile and out into the sea.

Driving southward from Cario into the Nile Valley, I entered a landscape that owed little to the present era.

In 2008, it supported Egypt's first major labor strikes in decades, in the industrial town of Mahalla, on the Nile Delta.

Dense network of waterways in the larger rivers and the Ruzizi River and malagarasi River rufus River is the source of the Nile.

The Nile Delta also witnessed the first flowering of the wine trade.

there is some evidence for them weakening the flow of the Nile and disrupting monsoons.

Along the Nile River stand the pyramids.

Her famous books include Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile etc.

The new dam controls the waters of the Nile so that they now run regularyly all through the year.

She go up the Nile as far as the first crocodile.

Cotton is the major agricultural product from the Nile Valley.

It will displace more than 50, 000 people who live along this isolated region of the Nile, growing dates and herding sheep and goats.

Flooding of the Nile will play a role on the Egypt campaign-map.

I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.

Tombs and temples of ancient Egypt followed the Nile well into Sudan.

Dressed up as Pharaoh kings, they pose by the Nile and the pyramids.

From June to September the Nile rises and submerges the whole valley.

A city of central Egypt on the eastern bank of the Nile River.

Moreover, new uses are being found for the Nile itself.

In the capital men line up beside the Nile at sunrise to fill yellow jerry cans.

Tombs and temples of ancient Egypt follow the Nile well into Sudan.

He directed his troops toward the Nile Delta.

Many waters will mix with human blood and turn red, as once in the past the Nile in Egypt turned red with blood.

Poirot: It was when the pistol was retrieved from the Nile.

before the high dam was built, the nile flooded every year and destroyed the fields nearly.

Our own trip down the Nile begins at the temple of Abu Simbel.

The earliest process of making paper was done almost five thousand years ago in Egypt and the Nile Valley.

Families cool off and clean their motor bikes and cars in the Nile River.

The Nile, which is the longest river in Egypt, no longer destroys crops.

Bordering Downtown to the west is the Nile River, which is obstructed by two sizeable islands.

In 1959, Egypt and the newly independent Sudan signed adeal that gave them "full utilisation of the Nile waters" .

important food fish of the Nile and other rivers of Africa and Asia Minor.

A river of northeast Africa rising in northwest Ethiopia and flowing about805 km(500 mi) to the Nile River in eastern Sudan.

The Nile is the world's longest river, its streams flow through nine countries.

And all the Egyptians dug along the Nile to get drinking water, because they could not drink the water of the river.

Even the world's great rivers, such as the Yangtze, the Nile and the Ganges, are suffering serious biodiversity and water security stress.

Is solar variability reflected in the Nile River?

Join us as we travel down the Nile and back through time.

The Nile River is very importat to the people of Egypt. They like to tell stories and sing songs about it.

You can almost find your ideas about the Nile reflected in their eyes.

The head-waters of the Nile.

As rain fell in the Ethiopian highlands and the snows melted in the Mountains of the Moon , the Nile was everlastingly renewed.

Is it possible that the Pythagorean theory was conceived on the shores of the Nile and the Euphrates rather than in ancient Greece?

For Egypt, the solution lies in making better use of the Nile's existing flows.

He had once canoed down the Nile.

And seven days went past, after the Lord had put his hand on the Nile.

To this day, the land of the Nile is the one land where they can find no rest.

The Nile floods the fields and deposits mud on them.

A houseboathaving sails and sometimes an engine, used on the Nile.

More modest plans, such as the extension of branch canals in the Nile delta, have worked much better.

From the Nile came the water for irrigation.

Yet the Nile has been changed by modern man in ways not yet fully understood.

This obviously refers to the Nile.

The Nile River in Africa is the longest river.

The Nile to the west of the western desert called the Libyan desert.

Cairo lies on the east bank of the Nile.

In the past, the Nile flood every year on a regular basis, to bring the fertile alluvial delta.

The Nile divide near its mouth and forms a delta.

We associate Egypt with the Nile.

To the Egyptian the Nile was his life's blood.

There longest river in the world is the Nile River in Egypt.

The Nile is the longest river in the world. Its total length is 6648kilometres.

Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: "Every boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live. "

From the Nile came the fertile top soil.

The Nile River in Egypt is the longest river in the world.

Free the Nile from the Grecian yoke!

When rain started to become scarce around 5, 500 years ago, they migrated east to the Nile Valley.

I recall he used a famous Egyptian quotation: "Once you drink from the Nile, you will always come back. "

The lifeline of Egypt is the Nile.

This is why their dead bodies were buried on the west bank of the Nile.

We all rushed to the Nile in the reeds so now couldsee us.

And the Nile is the longest river.

The longest river in the world is the Nile.

This is why their dead were buried on the west bank of the Nile.

(2) We associate Egypt with the Nile.

If you get to Egypt, you shouldn't forget to enjoy the beautiful view of the valley of the Nile.

I am spending the night at a camp by the Nile.

green, the Nile river water, a kind of gloomy green.

There are fertile fields in the Nile Delta.

The Nile and the site of Cairo.

The earliest process of making paper was done almost 5, 000 years ago in Egypt and the Nile Valley.

The Aswan Dam, for example, stopped the Nile flooding but deprived Egypt of the fertile silt that floods left.