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His service continued until 1108, when, according to Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa, his attempt to retrieve a very large Felucca laden with copper, that had capsized in the Nile River, ended in failure.
Other illustrations include a lion-shaped mountain representing the Sierra Leone mountain range, the Alexandria lighthouse (laid horizontal), the mythical Mountains of the Moon (legendary source of the Nile River) in central Africa, and either the Table Mountain or Drakensberg range in South Africa.
He toured Europe, the Nile River, Syria, the Holy Land, Turkey and Greece giving him a lifelong appreciation of travel and winning him election to the Royal Geographic Society.
Hawazma traditional historians say they originally came from the Arabian Peninsula to Egypt then followed the River Nile until they settled on Jebel Awliyya part of Khartoum Province and as the grazing land became scarce and overcrowded they gradually moved to Western Sudan.
Modern explorers and geographers, however, have used the tiniest trickles of water to determine the source of the Amazon, Nile, and other rivers.
At the time it was completed it was second in length only to the Aswan Low Dam on the Nile River.
The Manning River is the only double delta river in the Southern Hemisphere and the only permanent multiple entrance river in the world other than the Nile River.
They were floated by barge down the Nile River when the water level was high during the spring floods, and then transferred to vessels to cross the Mediterranean Sea to the Roman port of Ostia.
The lowest amount that the Nile flooded to solve the famine was seven cubits.
Oreochromis aureus is native to Northern and Western Africa, and the Middle East, from the Senegal, Niger, Benue and lower Nile rivers in Africa to the Jordan River in the Middle East.
Captain Armstrong supervised British river transport in the Middle East, on the Nile and Tigris river.
The sprawling film celebrates international workers movements along six major rivers: the Volga, Mississippi, Ganges, Nile, Amazon and the Yangtze.
In November 2005, Xinhua News Agency opened a new office building alongside the Nile River in Cairo's Maadi district.
Deshret, from ancient Egyptian, was the formal name for the Red Crown of Lower Egypt and for the desert Red Land on either side of Kemet, the fertile Nile river basin.
Before the 6th century, however, Aphroditopolis lost its status as a city, and the capital of the nome was moved across the Nile River to Antaeopolis.
This francolin is endemic to Ethiopia, having a range restricted to the Ethiopian highlands on either side of the Blue Nile river between Lake Tana and its confluence with the Jamma River, as well as its tributaries between these points.
Jinja, Uganda, a city in eastern Uganda close to the source of the Nile River
Lul is a Shilluk village located on the western bank of the Nile river, approximately one and a half hours by boat north from the city of Malakal, in Upper Nile province in South Sudan.
Though Herodotus was skeptical about the physical existence of Oceanus, he rejected snowmelt as a cause of the annual flood of the Nile river; according to his translator and interpreter, Livio Catullo Stecchini, he left unsettled the question of an equatorial Nile, since the geography of Sub-Saharan Africa was unknown to him.
Ammi majus, originates in the Nile River Valley and has white lace-like flower clusters
Satis, alternative spelling of Satet, is the cult of deification of the floods of the Nile River in Egyptian mythology
The territory of the sultanate was vast, stretching from the Tokar river near the modern border with Eritrea and their border with the Sultanate of Baqulin, west to the Butana plain and the Nubian Kingdom of Alodia, and north to the Nile river and the virtually uninhabitable red sea hills.
The Bahr al Jabal passes through Juba, the capital of South Sudan, which is the southernmost navigable point on the Nile river system, and then to Kodok, the site of the 1898 Fashoda Incident that marked an end to the 'Scramble for Africa'.