The Nile River, the world's longest river, is Egypt's beating heart as it has served as a lifeline for Egyptians since the ...

(The map here, a composite of NASA satellite images, spans from Lake Victoria to the Nile Delta ... city of Shedet (now called Faiyum), located in the river's Faiyum Oasis south of Cairo.

The inhospitable location has long puzzled archaeologists ... “This is the first study to provide the first map of the long-lost ancient branch of the Nile River.” Ghoneim and her colleagues ...

For the next seven months, members will map and measure the river’s entire course until it reaches the Atlantic Ocean. Then, if all goes smoothly, a journey down the Nile — which might ...

An underwater archaeological mission in the Nile River near Aswan ... washing away its rich history. Aswan, located along the Nile on the southern frontier of Egypt, was was a major supplier ...