Sediment cores off the Nile mouth reveal insights into the effects and causes of heavy rainfall episodes about 9,000 years ago. That will help to prepare for weather extremes in a changing climate ...

A now-extinct stretch of the Nile once flowed near Egypt’s Great Pyramid and likely played a key role in the construction of ancient monuments, according to new research.

But the Nile is no longer the unperturbable river of myth. In half a century its flow has dropped from 3,000 cubic metres (10,600 cubic feet) ... At the mouth of the Nile, ...

A now-defunct arm of the Nile river helped Egyptians construct pyramids on the Giza plateau, a new study confirms.. While it is generally accepted that ancient Egyptian engineers used a long-lost ...

The Pyramids of Khufu, left, and Khafre looming in Egypt. Scientists reconstructed the 8,000-year rise and fall of the Khufu Branch of the Nile River, a tributary no longer in existence.

Mighty floods of the Nile River during warmer and wetter climates Sediment cores off the Nile mouth reveal insights into the effects and causes of heavy rainfall episodes about 9,000 years ago.

But the Nile is no longer the unperturbable river of myth. In half a century its flow has dropped from 3,000 cubic metres (10,600 cubic feet) per second to 2,830 cubic metres. Yet it could get ...