There's no conclusive evidence, but a river reputed by some to be the oldest in the world dates back 340 million years.

The domestication of wheat and barley in the Fertile Crescent marked a pivotal turning point in human history. This region, encompassing parts of mod ...

The Ancient Egyptian Struggle with Climate In the face of today's extreme weather events, from scorching heatwaves to ...

In a discovery that has sent shockwaves through the archaeological and historical communities, an ancient book was unearthed beneath the Nile River ... object encased in sediment at the riverbed.

The Bon faith describes the Tibetan Plateau being pushed up from a roiling primeval sea, confirming current evidence about the orogenesis of the Himalaya. In local lore, supernatural lha (animal ...

A new discovery by a team of volunteers and scientists has unearthed tantalising evidence of a large predatory dinosaur, ...

Its southern coast was a vast river in a rift valley as wide as the Nile, the banks thick with ... the banks before the rushing waters piled sediment over them. Over millions of years that ...

NARRATOR: Some of the most famous ancient sites are here: temples to the most important gods on the East Bank of the Nile; the funerary ... the density of the sediment changes.

that these numerous connected lakes and rivers lire tlie ultimate southern sources of tlie Nile ... dissolves without leaving the slightest sediment. 2. Alcohol must dissolve the whole ...