“This is the first study to provide the first map of the long-lost ancient branch of the Nile River.” Ghoneim and her colleagues refer to this extinct branch of the Nile river as ...

(The map here, a composite of NASA satellite images, spans from Lake Victoria to the Nile Delta.) The Nile is widely considered Earth's longest river, but that title isn't as simple as it sounds.

For the next seven months, members will map and measure the river’s entire course until it reaches the Atlantic Ocean. Then, if all goes smoothly, a journey down the Nile — which might ...

She said they plan to expand their map and work to detect additional buried branches of the Nile floodplain. Determining the outline and shape of the ancient river branch could help researchers ...