Archaeologists working at the Avenue of Sphinxes in Luxor, Egypt, have uncovered the remains of a fifth century Coptic church and a Nilometer, a structure used to measure the level of the Nile ...

CAIRO, July 17 (KUNA) -- The Nilometer, located in the Egyptian capital Cairo, still stands to this day as a classical Islamic architectural wonder. Constructed by Abbasid caliph Al-Mutawakkil in the ...

The Islamic Nilometer, a log of Nile water levels since 622, showed a corresponding impact on the river. “The volcanic eruptions didn’t cause these (social) upheavals on their own,” Ludlow said.

Commissioned by a Caliph, Al-Farghani made a long journey, from his home in present-day Uzbekistan, through Iraq and finally to Egypt to add his extensive knowledge to the Nilometer - by which ...

It seems volcanoes were at least partially responsible for the demise of Cleopatra's Egypt, ... based volcanic records or eruption dates and cross-referencing them with the Islamic Nilometer ...

Ancient Egyptians measured the level in the Nile River every year in the so-called “Nilometers” that were located in the lower Nile Valley. The purpose of these measurements was to forecast ...