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The Nile was also a convenient and efficient means of transportation for people and goods. The Nile was also an important part of ancient Egyptian spiritual life. Hapi was the god of the annual floods, and both he and the pharaoh were thought to control the flooding. The Nile was considered to be a causeway from life to death and the afterlife.
STORY: This exhibition documents life on the banks of river Nile Location: Cairo, Egypt‘Everyday Nile’ showcases work by photographers, journalists and researcherscoming from different Nile ...
There is only one year-round river in Egypt, the Nile. It has no non-seasonal tributaries for its entire length in Egypt, though it has two further upstream, the Blue Nile and White Nile, which merge in central Sudan. In the Nile Delta, the river splits into a number of distributaries and lesser channels.
The Upper Nile plant is the Egyptian lotus, and the Lower Nile plant is the Papyrus Sedge (Cyperus papyrus), although it is not nearly as plentiful as it once was, and is becoming quite rare. [ 20 ] Several hundred thousand water birds spend their winter in the delta, including the world's largest concentrations of little gulls and whiskered ...
The scholars Isaac Rabinowitz, Israel Ephʿal, Jan Retsö, and David F. Graf identify the land of Goshen with the parts of the Qedarite kingdom of "Arabia" located to the east of the Nile Delta and around Pithom, and which became known to ancient Egyptians as Gsm (𓎤𓊃𓅓𓏏𓊖) [14] and to Jews as the ʾEreṣ Gōšen (אֶרֶץ ...
The site is today the largest surviving tell in the Nile delta, and consists of both Tell El-Ruba (the site of the main temple enclosure) and Tell El-Timai (the settlement site of Thmuis to the south). Overall, Mendes is about 3 km long from north to south and averages about 900m east-to-west.
At least 10 Egyptian women and children died Tuesday when a small bus carrying about two dozen people slid off a ferry and plunged into the Nile River just outside Cairo, health authorities said.
The museum is located in the heart of Cairo, specifically on Manial Island, near Qasr El-Eini. It can be accessed by public transportation, private cars, or the metro, with the nearest station being Sayyida Zeinab, followed by a short walk to the palace. The visiting hours for the palace are from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. [25]