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The world's longest river, located in Egypt, the Nile flows 4,132 miles (6,650 kilometres) northward to the Mediterranean Sea (a very unusual direction for a river to take). It was considered the source of life by the ancient Egyptians and...

The Battle of the Nile (1-2 August 1798), or the Battle of Aboukir Bay, saw a British fleet led by Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson (1758-1805) destroy a French fleet at Aboukir Bay near the Rosetta mouth of the Nile River. It was one of the...

The Nile Delta as seen from orbit.

The Nile River, vital aspect of the civilization of ancient Egypt, as seen from Cairo.

This mosaic was part of the floor of a grotto in Palestrina, near Rome, Italy. It dates to c. 100 BCE and is an example of the interest that Roman artists and elites began to take in Ptolemaic Egypt during the 2nd and 1st Centuries BCE...

Statue of the Nile God Hapy, from Thebes, Karnak, temple of Amun-Ra, Egypt, 22nd Dynasty, reign of Osorkon I, c. 924-889 BCE. The fleshy body symbolizes the Nile's fertility. Hapy holds a table of offerings, from which hang geese, quails...

Map showing the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers flowing from north to south into the Persian Gulf, and the Nile River flowing from south to north into the Mediterranean Sea.

This fragment comes from a fresco found in the "House of the Ephebus" in Pompeii. It portrays an erotic scene on the Nile. It portrays two African men and a Greek or Roman woman. The fresco dates to the 1st Century CE and currently resides...

Map of ship movements during the Battle of the Nile. British ships are red, French ships are blue. Image by Gsl; based on a map from Intelligence in War, John Keegan, 2003, p. 43.

Explosion of L'Orient at the Battle of the Nile, 1 August 1798, oil on canvas by George Arnald, c. 1825. National Maritime Museum, London.