#nile river

[dailyclassicart]

Ernst Karl Eugen Koerner - "Twilight on the Nile" (1899)

[twoseparatecoursesmeet]

The Nile, 2005

Mickey Crisp

[metamorphicmuse]

"One day our story will be told in the stars."

Mindlessly, we traced hands and fingertips across exposed skin and hair. I can't even remember what we said, but time passed into sleep.

[stanford-photography]

Marijne, Luxor, Egypt, 1983 By Jeff Stanford, 2024

Buy prints at: https://jeff-stanford.pixels.com/

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[lutnistas]

View of the Nile and Aswan’s West Bank from Elephantine Island ( Aswan / Egypt )

[septembergold]

This image shows Trajan's Kiosk, a historic temple structure located on Agilkia Island in the Nile River near Aswan, Egypt. 

It was built by the Roman emperor Trajan around 100 CE.

The structure is unfinished and was originally located on the nearby island of Philae.

It is often referred to as the "Pharaoh's Bed".

[wachinyeya]

Nile Basin farmers grow food forests to restore wetlands and bring back a turtle

WESTERN PROVINCE, Kenya — In the 44 years Naomi Rita Sitati has lived in Bukirimo village in western Kenya, she has known only one system of

Sugarcane is a widely grown crop in the Nile Basin, but its destructive effects on soils, water resources and biodiversity have become increasingly apparent.

As the thirsty crop draws down water resources, aquatic species like the critically endangered Nubian flapshell turtle suffer a loss of habitat, forage and nesting sites.

In an effort to revive soils, diversify diets and incomes, and boost water levels that many animals rely on, communities are implementing agroforestry projects in lieu of monocultures.

The resulting “food forests” attract an array of wildlife while refilling wetlands and river systems where the culturally important flapshell turtles swim.