Nile
The river of Egypt, flowing north through the desert to the Mediterranean, whose floods made civilisation possible in the sand.
Specifications & Metrics
- length
- about 6,650 km
Core Principles & Analysis
- Its annual flood deposited the black silt that gave Egypt its own name for the land: Kemet.
- It has two great headwaters, the White Nile from the Great Lakes and the Blue Nile from Ethiopia.
- Herodotus called Egypt the gift of the Nile.
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