Nile Valley

[ nahyl val-ee ]

noun

1. the area of northeastern Africa surrounding the Nile River and its watershed, including parts of Egypt, Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, and Kenya.

Example Sentences

Research published in Nature Geoscience reveals a major shift in the Nile around four thousand years ago, after which the floodplain in the Nile Valley around Luxor greatly expanded.

From Science Daily

Dominic Barker, another co-author also from the University of Southampton, explained how the work was achieved: "We drilled 81 boreholes, many by hand, across the whole Nile Valley near Luxor -- a genuine first for Egypt. Using geological information contained within the cores, and dating the sediments using a technique called Optically Stimulated Luminescence we were able to piece together the evolution of the riverine landscape."

From Science Daily

The new insights into the evolution of the Egyptian Nile Valley near Luxor provide essential landscape context for archaeologists and Egyptologists to reinterpret ancient sites in the region and re-consider locations of settlements in the Nile Valley.

From Science Daily

Conversely, people in the region where undoubtedly affected by the climate tipping: The traces of settlement in the Nile valley at the end of the African Humid Period attract millions of tourists to the region every year.

From Science Daily

During a drought in the 1990s, many Sinai Bedouins moved to coastal cities or farms in the Nile Valley for work, said Youssuf Barakat of the Alegat tribe, who spent two years with Mr. Hoffler mapping out the trail’s South Sinai routes and served as a guide during the COP27-related hike in October.

From New York Times