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6 - Islands in the Nile

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2019

Judith Bunbury
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University of Cambridge
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The inhabitants of the Nile valley have learnt to live and adapt to a changing river system. Island formations gave renewed hope and new opportunities for a population anxious for the encroaching desert in an increasingly unwelcoming environment.Authorities understood how dependent settlements were on the Nile and, in their endeavours to follow its meandering path, abandoning once flourishing cities and towns.

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The Nile and Ancient Egypt
Changing Land- and Waterscapes, from the Neolithic to the Roman Era
, pp. 76 - 91
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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