Nile Valley

[nahyl val-ee]

noun

1. the area of northeastern Africa surrounding the Nile River and its watershed, including parts of Egypt, Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, and Kenya.

Example Sentences

A DNA bone test on a man who lived 4,500 years ago in the Nile Valley has shed new light on the rise of the Ancient Egyptian civilisation.

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A DNA bone test on a man who lived 4,500 years ago in the Nile Valley has shed new light on the rise of the Ancient Egyptian civilisation.

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Research published in Nature Geoscience reveals a major shift in the Nile around four thousand years ago, after which the floodplain in the Nile Valley around Luxor greatly expanded.

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Dominic Barker, another co-author also from the University of Southampton, explained how the work was achieved: "We drilled 81 boreholes, many by hand, across the whole Nile Valley near Luxor -- a genuine first for Egypt. Using geological information contained within the cores, and dating the sediments using a technique called Optically Stimulated Luminescence we were able to piece together the evolution of the riverine landscape."

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The new insights into the evolution of the Egyptian Nile Valley near Luxor provide essential landscape context for archaeologists and Egyptologists to reinterpret ancient sites in the region and re-consider locations of settlements in the Nile Valley.

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