Explore the incredible story of Africa’s $5 billion megadam project and its monumental impact on the Nile River. This engineering marvel, known as the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), has ...

The path of the defunct waterway lies between 2.5 and 10.25 kilometres west of the modern Nile river. ... and between 200 and 700 metres wide. This is similar to the width of the river today.

The Nile is only slightly longer than the Amazon River, for example, and in 2007 a team of Brazilian scientists announced they had remeasured the Amazon and found it to be 6,800 km (4,225 miles ...

Ethiopia’s prime minister says the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Nile has been completed. Egypt has long opposed the ...

Ahl Masr Walkway is a gigantic project on the Nile river corniche, which has cost $30m in the first phase of development. ... It has a ground-level walkway with a width of 4.5 meters, ...

These sites are now several dozens of kilometres away from the Nile River. ... The channel ran for around 60 kilometres through agricultural areas and had a similar depth and width to the modern Nile.

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

Ghoneim and her colleagues refer to this extinct branch of the Nile river as Ahramat, which is Arabic for pyramids. Ancient Egyptians likely used the now-extinct Ahramat Branch to build many pyramids.