The Nile river has been around as long as anything else, but despite that, researchers still struggle to pinpoint its ...

Ben Fogle and Dwayne Fields conclude their documentary about the 19th-century explorers searching Africa for the source of the Nile. They pick up the story with Dr Livingstone's disappearance and ...

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, as well as most English-speaking sources, the Nile is the world’s longest river, stretching roughly 6,695km from East Central Africa towards ...

Downstream in Egypt, where the Nile meets the sea, a starkly different picture emerges: The dam is a giant, menacing barrier that could be used to hold back the source of nearly all the country ...

Without the River Nile, Egypt would be a desert because very little rain falls there. Luckily, lots of rain does fall upstream, near the sources of the river. Every year, a very heavy rainfall in ...