American and Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a rare structure called a nilometer in the ruins of the ancient city of Thmuis in Egypt’s Delta region. Likely constructed during the third ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nilometer, Thmuis, Egypt (Tell Timai Project/Mohamed Gabr). The Nile was the lifeblood of ancient Egypt, and its inundation was the pivotal annual event in Egyptian civilization.Every summer ...

Rawda Island Nilometer: “Nilometers, as their name suggests, were used to measure flood levels so that dykes and canals could be prepared accordingly. Flood levels affected agricultural productivity, ...

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. &nbsp ...

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 inve… ...