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What have you learned about Nile River History?

Have you ever been to the Nile River?

From the lens The Nile River - History and Facts.

  • Lareene Jun 2, 2012 @ 5:04 pm | delete
    Always interested in anything connected with Egypt good info thanks.
  • ogrote May 10, 2012 @ 2:04 pm | delete
    great lens
  • l-T May 4, 2012 @ 2:33 pm | delete
    That it was a Long river valley and takes up half of Africa
  • janicemiller Apr 25, 2012 @ 6:59 pm | delete
    I haven't been to the Nile yet, but it is on my list of places I would like to visit before I die.
  • SailingLinks Apr 17, 2012 @ 1:29 pm | delete
    Wow really great lens. I havent been to Nile myself yet, but did some white water rafting on the Zambezi. Really great.
  • naheedahsan Mar 29, 2012 @ 12:20 pm | delete
    I haven't been to the Nile River but it someday i like to
  • flicker Mar 22, 2012 @ 11:23 am | delete
    Fascinating article! I've never been to the Nile, but after reading this, I'd love to.
  • jksterling Mar 19, 2012 @ 12:24 pm | delete
    What an excellent lens, thank you.
  • KatherineWakefield Mar 19, 2012 @ 8:39 am | delete
    great informational lens!
  • BedlinenDirectLtd Mar 19, 2012 @ 7:45 am | delete
    this is a great post and very informative.
  • drbilltellsexcitingstories Mar 2, 2012 @ 7:37 pm | delete
    I have not lived by the Nile River, but I am fascinated by rivers. I'll be doing lenses of rivers in the Missouri, Arkansas Ozarks region. Thanks for a great model! ;-)
  • MelonyVaughan Feb 24, 2012 @ 6:40 pm | delete
    Excellent lens and very educational!
  • kohtaoisland Feb 23, 2012 @ 12:16 am | delete
    Interesting lens. Thanks for the information. I discovered a lot about Nile River.
  • tlaeno Feb 18, 2012 @ 8:56 pm | delete
    4150 miles long! Wow! Very interesting reading!
  • Mz.Rude Gurl.! Feb 15, 2012 @ 3:16 pm | delete
    THIS REALLY HELPED ME WITH MY PROJECT ABOUT THE NILE RIVER THANK YOU SO MUCH
  • malissa Feb 11, 2012 @ 8:19 pm | delete
    Thanks for the great info really helped me in my project.
  • lovegirlrocks Feb 11, 2012 @ 8:18 pm | delete
    nice info
  • bullyingstatistics Feb 11, 2012 @ 6:00 pm | delete
    I had never really planned on visiting Africa at any point in the near future...but now I may have to change my mind!
  • kendrafowler Jan 31, 2012 @ 4:24 am | delete
    I was always fascinated by the Nile. In fact Africa is a continent that thrills me in every possible way. Nile, I will definitely ride on you sometime!! Very nice write up. Felt like I was traveling through the region!
  • COUNTRYLUTHIER Jan 28, 2012 @ 10:23 pm | delete
    I am not certain, I have been to Cairo Egypt, seen the pyramids, ridden a camel and visited an oasis, but strangely, I have no memories of the Nile river. Great lense though. Maybe next time.
  • Selavi Jan 27, 2012 @ 12:12 pm | delete
    Thank you for wonderful history and facts about Nile River
  • grflgrfl Jan 26, 2012 @ 11:33 am | delete
    Visiting Egypt and the Nile are on my to-do list. Thank you for the wonderful write-up.
  • JackieSonia Jan 24, 2012 @ 8:41 pm | delete
    Wow! Interesting lens. I haven't been to the Nile River but it sounds like a lovely place with a lot of history. Thanks for sharing. Have learned a few things I didn't know.
  • girlfriendfactory Jan 22, 2012 @ 3:58 pm | delete
    I haven't been to the Nile River, but it's been a dream of mine since I was a little girl. I was lucky enough to see two traveling museum tours of ancient pharaohs though. One when Ramses II was in the USA 25 years ago and then when Tutankhamun came this last time (missed it the first time). It may be the closest I get to Egypt...that and the Internet. This was a lovely historical lens! Well done and very deserving of a Flyby Winging! :) ~Ren
  • nelsonkana Jan 21, 2012 @ 4:00 am | delete
    Nice lens here. Am taking a tour of top lenses. This is one of them. I like it.
  • VillaDejaBlue Jan 15, 2012 @ 8:38 pm | delete
    Nice lens.
  • gemjane Jan 15, 2012 @ 5:32 pm | delete
    Wow! This is interesting! Thanks.
  • Vallygems1 Jan 9, 2012 @ 8:48 am | delete
    Very Informative Thank You
  • JoyfulReviewer Jan 5, 2012 @ 11:11 pm | delete
    Thanks for creating this really informative lens ... nicely done!
  • MareeT Dec 27, 2011 @ 7:07 pm | delete
    Great and informative lens! Thanks for sharing!
  • collettehrock Dec 10, 2011 @ 8:49 am | delete
    I didn't get a chance to finish it all but wanted to come back and read the rest, I have never been there but thoroughly enjoyed this story
  • AZBCGUY Dec 2, 2011 @ 2:52 pm | delete
    I was in Egypt 5 years ago and took a foru day cruise down the Nile. I was amazed at the temples along the way. The history that took place along this river is mind boggling. I enjoyed this lens because it brought back many great memories.
  • waldenthree.net Nov 26, 2011 @ 1:54 pm | delete
    Nile River, history, culture and nature come together now and centuries ago. A startling place much yet to be learned. Thanks for sharing.
  • amieljaven Nov 24, 2011 @ 6:49 am | delete
    So glad I found this nice lens. I really enjoyed this lens. Thanks for sharing. Squid-liked!
  • Dress2Impress Nov 23, 2011 @ 2:55 am | delete
    Cool. Very interesting information on the Nile. The river has so much rich history it's insane!
  • MyDestination Nov 9, 2011 @ 9:31 am | delete
    Very interesting and some great facts
  • abrahamgpg Nov 8, 2011 @ 7:02 am | delete
    Never been there. But hope to go see all the excellent places soon.

    Thanks for a great informative lens.
  • TrentAdamsCA Nov 5, 2011 @ 7:55 pm | delete
    Wonderful work -- I appreciate the details of how controlling the Nile has affected cultivation. Terrific illustrations, too. I haven't been to the Nile, yet.
  • Lindrus Nov 3, 2011 @ 12:09 am | delete
    Thanks for your lens! I've done a Nile cruise and really enjoyed it.
  • aesta1 Oct 28, 2011 @ 3:18 am | delete
    My husband and I were there in the Nile cruising and I just could not believe I was in the ancient seat of civilization. I thought of how the first people lived there.
  • food_monkey Oct 24, 2011 @ 5:01 pm | delete
    I liked the lens and enjoyed the history
  • OldStones Oct 20, 2011 @ 4:57 pm | delete
    Great article on the history of the Nile river. Egypt is definitely on my list of must see places.
  • cffutah Oct 19, 2011 @ 9:20 pm | delete
    returning reader!
  • TZiggy Oct 17, 2011 @ 11:37 pm | delete
    Very educational and easy to read about the Nile River. I like how this lens is laid out.
  • OhMe Oct 17, 2011 @ 4:27 pm | delete
    I sure enjoyed reading more about the Nile River. I didn't know the history. Thanks.
  • kimmanleyort Oct 12, 2011 @ 1:00 pm | delete
    I have always wanted to visit Africa. I think knowing the history of the Nile River would be a great way to get ready for it. Beautifully presented. Blessed.
  • Big_Joe Oct 10, 2011 @ 8:28 pm | delete
    I have never been to the Nile River, but would like to go sometime.
    This is a great lens with unique information and deserves a blessing.
    Thanks for sharing... Blessed by Big Joe
  • fionamckay9 Oct 9, 2011 @ 8:29 am | delete
    Great lens - very informative - I plan to take a Nile cruise someday. Blessed
  • homerepellent Oct 8, 2011 @ 4:01 am | delete
    A great introduction into the longest river of Africa. Done in 15 minutes and I feel like I know a little more about our world. Thank you for the concise information.

    Cheers,
    Homerepellent
  • Surfer83 Oct 7, 2011 @ 3:31 am | delete
    Informative lens =)
  • cffutah Oct 6, 2011 @ 7:18 pm | delete
    I learned how many cultures of people over the years have stayed close to the Nile River for food and to support life. Glad I browsed upon your lens tonight, gave you a 'thumbs up'!
  • Sep 13, 2011 @ 10:14 pm | delete
    A Wonderful Lens. Thank you it is a great read.
  • hlkljgk Sep 12, 2011 @ 7:23 pm | delete
    fantastic lens!
  • AvidArchie Sep 9, 2011 @ 7:17 am | delete
    Great lens! I actually wrote a lens detailing my experiences from when I was in Egypt, but I wrote about the culture of Egypt as a whole, so I could not get as detailed about things such as the Nile like you do here. It is great to read the in depth information you have offered. Keep up the great work!
  • NidhiRajat Sep 8, 2011 @ 1:59 am | delete
    Informative lens.......!!!!!!!!!!1 Want 2 know more..
  • paperfacets Sep 2, 2011 @ 7:34 pm | delete
    I read part of Teddy Roosevelt's bio by McCullough. The Roosevelt family spent a summer on the Nile when Teddy was about 12. They were on a house boat with servants and the would be President was in nature heaven. I sure wished that had been me floating down the Nile.
  • GypsyLyric Aug 30, 2011 @ 5:14 pm | delete
    I;m lucky enough to have been to Egypt in 2001. Thanks for some great info on a beautiful river and area.
  • GonnaFly Aug 20, 2011 @ 4:12 am | delete
    I've never been to the nile, so thanks for a most fascinating read.
  • barts2011 Aug 5, 2011 @ 11:21 pm | delete
    Nile River is the Egyptian's life ' Egypt is my life
    thank you for this geat post
  • puerdycat Jul 10, 2011 @ 8:26 am | delete
    Been to the island (monastery) in the middle of Lake Tana. The little boat left us there without telling us that the priests would be daunted to see women. They guarded us carefully! Thanks for a great page!
  • CHalloran Jun 7, 2011 @ 12:29 pm | delete
    I have been to Egypt years ago. Nile is so magical. It is beautiful with desert sand and palm trees on each side... and all the ancient temples etc... I would like to go back one day.
  • Greekgeek May 3, 2011 @ 7:38 pm | delete
    I don't know why I never stumbled across this lens before. It's excellent. Despite my nickname, I'm also very drawn to the myth and culture of Pharaonic Egypt, and yet I learned a few things here -- wow! I had not realized, although it makes perfect sense, that the area around Egypt dried out after the Ice Age.

    I've always been impressed by the fact that the ancient Egyptian culture, unlike ours, prized stability not progress. For them, the flooding of the river each year, the continuation of the agricultural cycle that kept them alive, the systems of dikes and fields and boundaries artificially imposed, regulation, stone -- they prized and treasured these things as a sure sign that life would always return and they would never starve or lose the life-giving pulse of their river. They didn't like progress. Too risky, you know? It made them a bit set in their ways, but that civilization lasted as long as any in the world -- shaped, in no small part, by the profound synergy with the Nile's annual cycle.

    I've always wondered what it did to the psychology of their culture to have that cycle halted. In the long run a good thing -- save for the salinization problems, and also I think Lake Nassar (sp) has some issues now --- but it's such a change! Of course, the Egypt I'm most familiar petered out around 300AD.
  • NYThroughTheLens Apr 16, 2011 @ 2:23 pm | delete
    Excellent informative lens. I would love to travel and visit the Nile one day.
  • prince2-training-course Mar 31, 2011 @ 7:45 am | delete
    Would love to travel the Nile one day, starting from the source, and going all the way to the sea!
  • Fignewton37 Mar 30, 2011 @ 10:59 am | delete
    Very interesting and involved lens. I was actually in Egypt when I was a kid on a Holy Land tour. You can't believe how dry and arid the place is. There is desert everywhere and then there is this body of water flowing through the land. Periodically it overflows its banks and waters the banks with rich soil for growing crops. Great lens. Thanks for your hard work.
  • KateW39 Feb 20, 2011 @ 5:35 pm | delete
    I am fascinated by the temples along the Nile River, and the Valley of the King and Queen.
  • tvyps Feb 12, 2011 @ 12:38 pm | delete
    Cool lens. Did you know that under the Nile River, they discovered another river? In 1958 they tracked a crypto-river flowing under the Nile with flow six times greater than the Nile itself!
  • joanv334 Feb 6, 2011 @ 8:40 am | delete
    Hello, thanks for sharing!
  • TapIn2U Jan 29, 2011 @ 8:43 am | delete
    So much to learn from the history of the Nile River. A very informative lens. Great job!
  • tourism-india Jan 24, 2011 @ 11:52 pm | delete
    Nile is so significant and your lens highlights useful information about it. loved it
  • Michey Jan 15, 2011 @ 5:20 pm | delete
    I love History and Geography so this is the type of lens I like. 5*
    It is informative and educational
  • Serenia Jan 14, 2011 @ 8:29 am | delete
    wonderful lens.
  • SandyPeaks Jan 2, 2011 @ 4:36 pm | delete
    I can recommend a Nile cruise most highly! So little appears to have changed along the banks that you'd be forgiven for thinking you had been transported back into the distant past! Thanks for bringing back great memories! Blessed by a SquidAngel.
  • Hairdresser007 Dec 24, 2010 @ 1:45 pm | delete
    fun lens. i have always wanted to go there!!
  • Tipi Nov 17, 2010 @ 7:43 pm | delete
    Delightfu! What a fun way to learn, great writing and wonderful information. I'm ready for the 'pop' quiz, lol!
  • SereneSea Nov 15, 2010 @ 10:39 pm | delete
    A very enjoyable experience with river Nile indeed on this lens.
  • Nov 15, 2010 @ 9:34 am | delete
    I did not know a lot about the Nile river but it is good to know new things every day.
  • jimmy Nov 22, 2010 @ 7:31 pm | delete
    do u know why the nile river is called the great gift??
  • beans Nov 30, 2010 @ 8:27 pm | delete
    it helped the ancient egyptians in farming and they used it for water and food also for a transportation devise it also provided fertile lands for farming
  • rasudesign Oct 28, 2010 @ 11:48 am | delete
    The Nile and Egypt have always fascinated me as well! This is a very well written and interesting lens! Thanks for sharing :)
  • MarkUpshaw Oct 26, 2010 @ 1:52 am | delete
    Very nice lens. I love ancient Egypt.
  • Maiia Reeeeedeeeenbaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaach Oct 14, 2010 @ 11:09 am | delete
    Thiiiiiiis Weebsite Is Amazin' . Thaanks; (:
  • Kayla Nov 15, 2010 @ 4:33 pm | delete
    Well it can be wrong about some things.
  • Oct 13, 2010 @ 5:02 am | delete
    For some unknown reason the Nile and Egypt holds a real fascination for me. I really enjoyed reading yours lens and your visuals are fabulous.
  • Swisstoons Oct 12, 2010 @ 11:33 pm | delete
    A terrific lens filled with information. I enjoyed reading it. And the books you've highlighted look extremely interesting, too. Thumbs up!
  • JoyfulPamela Sep 28, 2010 @ 5:10 am | delete
    This will be helpful to my children when we study about Egypt this year. Thank you! : )
  • Health-Gal Sep 27, 2010 @ 2:31 am | delete
    In love with Egypt, love this lens, thank you!
  • Health-Gal Sep 23, 2010 @ 2:38 pm | delete
    great lens, we just came home from visiting Egypt so it is great to read a bit more about the Nile, with the memories of the beautiful riverside still fresh in my head!
  • Spook Sep 20, 2010 @ 11:03 am | delete
    Always been fascinated by all this. Blessed by an Angel.
  • lakeerieartists Sep 22, 2010 @ 8:14 am | delete
    It is fascinating. Thanks for flying by. :)
  • SofiaMann Sep 17, 2010 @ 1:52 pm | delete
    I visited the Nilo River many years ago. Much later I married a man named Nilo! Curiosities of life. Congratulations on your lens.
  • ness@lucas rock! Sep 9, 2010 @ 5:31 pm | delete
    Thanks. This will really help me!
  • skiesgreen Aug 2, 2010 @ 9:33 pm | delete
    Wonderful lens with some interesting facts. *-*Blessed*-* and featured on Sprinkled with Stardust and also on Floods, Drought and Climate Change
  • jnar Aug 1, 2010 @ 6:37 am | delete
    nice info.,, it'll help me to do my report,, thanks a lot..
  • Kate-Phizackerley Dec 30, 2009 @ 7:55 pm | delete
    Nice Egypt Lens - Blessed
  • oztoo Dec 7, 2009 @ 3:16 pm | delete
    Great information about the river Nile, a truly magnifecent river. Egypt is such a fascinating place.
  • inkserotica Dec 5, 2009 @ 4:01 pm | delete
    Great and interesting information about an awesome river :) 5*
  • AndyPo May 22, 2009 @ 8:36 am | delete
    Excellent lens. I have been to Egypt twice and traveled by cruise boat and Felucca along the Egyptian part of the Nile. I think the Old Cataract Hotel, Aswan, is probably my favourite hotel.
  • jimb12345 Apr 27, 2009 @ 10:05 pm | delete
    i would love to go to egypt. i just love geography and travel.
    geography information source
  • josh Feb 25, 2009 @ 12:46 pm | delete
    hello
  • Amyji Feb 23, 2009 @ 11:08 am | delete
    Beautiful lens. I went to Egypt for two weeks back in 1999 and would love to go back one day. The temples and pyramids are so majestic and huge that you cannot get a sense of the scale from photos. And it's all so ancient - it's mind boggling!
  • kiwisoutback Jan 20, 2009 @ 7:38 pm | delete
    I'm huge into Egyptian history and mythology. They have a really fascintating culture. Great work!
  • KimGiancaterino Nov 18, 2008 @ 12:28 pm | delete
    Artfully done! I would love to see Egypt one day. Welcome to All Things Travel.
  • mulberry Nov 16, 2008 @ 6:30 pm | delete
    Haven't been, but would REALLY love to go. Nice lens!
  • JustBon-Crochet-Designs Nov 16, 2008 @ 2:03 pm | delete
    One of my ambitions is to get to Egypt - see the pyramids etc. Very nice lens.
  • Intuitive Nov 14, 2008 @ 7:25 am | delete
    I love the lens soundtrack! 5*
  • WendyKrick Nov 13, 2008 @ 12:51 pm | delete
    I would love to visit Egypt one day. This is a wonderful lens.
  • Jewelsofawe Nov 13, 2008 @ 12:49 pm | delete
    Great lens!

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