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Naucratis. Naucratis or Naukratis (Ancient Greek: Ναύκρατις, "Naval Command"; [1] Egyptian: njwt-kꜣrṯ, nskꜣrṯ, pr-mryt, [2] Coptic: Ⲡⲓⲉⲙⲣⲱ Piemro[citation needed]) was a city and trading-post in ancient Egypt, located on the Canopic (western-most) branch of the Nile river, south-east of the Mediterranean sea and the ...
Flooding cycle. The flooding of the Nile is the result of the yearly monsoon between May and August causing enormous precipitations on the Ethiopian Highlands whose summits reach heights of up to 4,550 m (14,930 ft). Most of this rainwater is taken by the Blue Nile and by the Atbarah River into the Nile, while a less important amount flows ...
The River Nile in the Post-Colonial Age: Conflict and Cooperation Among the Nile Basin Countries (I.B. Tauris, 2010) 293 pages; studies of the river's finite resources as shared by multiple nations in the post-colonial era; includes research by scholars from Burundi, Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.
The Battle of the Nile (also known as the Battle of Aboukir Bay; French: Bataille d'Aboukir) was a major naval battle fought between the British Royal Navy and the Navy of the French Republic at Aboukir Bay on the Mediterranean coast off the Nile Delta of Egypt between 1–3 August 1798. The battle was the climax of a naval campaign that had ...
Death on the Nile. Death on the Nile is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 1 November 1937 [1] and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. [2][3] The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) [4] and the US edition at $2.00. [3]
Destruction of L'Orient at the Battle of the Nile by George Arnald; the scene of the boy's death in 1798 "Casabianca" is a poem by the English poet Felicia Dorothea Hemans, first published in The Monthly Magazine, Vol 2, August 1826. [1] The poem starts: The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled; The flame that lit the battle ...
Water politics in the Nile Basin. As a body of water that crosses numerous international political borders, the Nile river is subject to multiple political interactions. Traditionally it is seen as the world's longest river flowing 6,700 kilometres (4,200 mi) through ten countries in northeastern Africa – Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic ...
100,000+ houses destroyed. In September 2020, profuse and continuous rainfall in Sudan caused a devastating flood across 17 out of the 18 states Sudanese states with the Blue Nile reaching water levels not seen for nearly a century. It ranks among the most severe floods recorded in the region. A state of emergency was declared, and teams have ...