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Research reveals a major shift in the Nile around 4,000 years ago, expanding the floodplain near Luxor and enhancing agricultural productivity, potentially contributing to ancient Egypt’s prosperity. Changes in the Nile’s behavior influenced settlement patterns and historical structures. The study, using boreholes and sediment dating, shows the river’s evolution from a braided system to a stable single-channel due to climatic shifts and human impact.
The findings raise the possibility that this shift could have contributed to the success of the ancient Egyptian agricultural economy at points between the Old and New Kingdom periods. The New Kingdom was a period of unparalleled prosperity, military conquest, and cultural achievement in Ancient Egyptian history.
The research was carried out by an international team led by Dr Angus Graham of Uppsala University in Sweden and including several archaeologists and geographers from the University of Southampton. “The Egyptian Nile we see today looks very different from how it would have been throughout much of the last 11,500 years,” says Dr Pennington. “For most of this time, the Nile was made up of a network of interwoven channels that frequently changed their course.”
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