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 ...

Because the Nilometer records and the here presented new record of past floods have an annual resolution and length, we could compare the pacemakers under different climatic conditions.

As the name suggests, the device originates from the area of the Nile in Egypt. The nilometer was invented for recording the annual inundations in Egypt and to control the floodwater.

Five thousand years after the Egyptians demonstrated science’s ability to hold death at bay, Florida’s governor is committed to denying his constituents that benefit. The Egyptians invented a ...

But the priests were cheating, because they had something else too: they had a Nilometer. This was a secret device made to measure and predict the level of floodwater. It consisted of a large ...

Although the Nilometer did not go back to the time of Ptolemaic Egypt, the authors still were able to compare data about the timing of ancient volcanoes with socioeconomic and political activity ...

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 ...

Indeed, beginning with the Nilometer, history records science’s slow-but-steady victories over nature’s malevolent side. Each milestone is effectively marked: “People don’t have to die of ...

Eruptions in far northern latitudes are linked to climate shocks in Ptolemaic Egypt.