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In the Ancient Egyptian religion, Hapi was the god of the Nile and the annual flooding of it. Both he and the pharaoh were thought to control the flooding. The annual flooding of the Nile occasionally was said to be the Arrival of Hapi. [3] Since this flooding provided fertile soil in an area that was otherwise desert, Hapi symbolised fertility.
Global distribution of the 4.2 kiloyear event. The hatched areas were affected by wet conditions or flooding, and the dotted areas by drought or dust storms. [1] The 4.2-kiloyear (thousand years) BP aridification event (long-term drought), also known as the 4.2 ka event, [2] was one of the most severe climatic events of the Holocene epoch. [3]
This yearly flooding of the river is known as inundation. As the floodwaters receded in October, farmers were left with well-watered and fertile soil in which to plant their crops. The soil left behind by the flooding is known as silt and was brought from Ethiopian Highlands by the Nile.
Climate change is already making extreme flooding more frequent and intense and by 2050 100-year flood events are projected to occur at least twice as frequently as today across 40% of the planet.
Hapi (Ancient Egyptian: ḥꜥpj) was the god of the annual flooding of the Nile in ancient Egyptian religion.The flood deposited rich silt (fertile soil) on the river's banks, allowing the Egyptians to grow crops. [1]
Elmer Gray, public health extension specialist with the University of Georgia in Athens said the heavy rainfall and flooding from Tropical Storm Debby is impacting the mosquito population.
Emad Attiah Ramadan has started planting rice on his 12-acre (5 hectare) plot on the edge of the Egyptian city of Damietta, giving up on tomatoes that would no longer grow well in the increasingly ...
A road going through the flooded savannah The Nile Delta upstream of Cairo in 1961. At the northern end is the Nile Delta, 175 km long by 260 km wide.There are some lakes and lagoons with marshes near the seacoast; some of the larger are Lake Burullus and Lake Manzala.