Nilobathynella predynastica n.g., n.sp. (Crustacea:Bathynellacea) from the Nile valley in Nubia

1984 ◽  
pp. 171-175
Author(s):  
Henri J. Dumont
Keyword(s):  
Nile Valley

Pre-Linnaean pictures of the secretarybird, Sagittarius serpentarius (J. F. )

2008 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
RAGNAR K. KINZELBACH
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Careful Examination ◽  
Nile Valley ◽  
Rain Forests ◽  
Roman Emperor ◽  
Persian Language ◽  
The Family ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Sub Saharan

The secretarybird, the only species of the family Sagittariidae (Falconiformes), inhabits all of sub-Saharan Africa except the rain forests. Secretarybird, its vernacular name in many languages, may be derived from the Arabic “saqr at-tair”, “falcon of the hunt”, which found its way into French during the crusades. From the same period are two drawings of a “bistarda deserti” in a codex by the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II (1194–1250). The original sketch obviously, together with other information on birds, came from the court of Sultan al-Kâmil (1180–1238) in Cairo. Careful examination led to an interpretation as Sagittarius serpentarius. Two archaeological sources and one nineteenth century observation strengthened the idea of a former occurrence of the secretarybird in the Egyptian Nile valley. André Thevet (1502–1590), a French cleric and reliable research traveller, described and depicted in 1558 a strange bird, named “Pa” in Persian language, from what he called Madagascar. The woodcut is identified as Sagittarius serpentarius. The text reveals East Africa as the real home of this bird, associated there among others with elephants. From there raises a connection to the tales of the fabulous roc, which feeds its offspring with elephants, ending up in the vernacular name of the extinct Madagascar ostrich as elephantbird.

TOWARDS A FUTURE VISION FOR THE REGIONAL URBAN NETWORK FOR UPPER EGYPT "NILE VALLEY IN ASSIUT REGION - AS A CASE STUDY"

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 295-310
Author(s):  
Mohamed Mohamed Azmy Ahmed Moussa ◽  
Mohamed Abbas EL-Zafarany
Keyword(s):  
Nile Valley ◽  
Urban Network ◽  
Upper Egypt ◽  
Future Vision

Diachronic trends in the evolution of civilizations in the Nile valley

2018 ◽  
pp. 37-49
Author(s):  
Элеонора Кормышева ◽  
Eleonora Kormysheva
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Social History ◽  
Contact Zone ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Nile Valley ◽  
Mediterranean World ◽  
The Mediterranean

The diachronic trends in socio-economic and cultural development of the societies in the Nile valley are revealed based on the materials from Giza necropolis (the 3rd millennium BC) and the settlement of Abu Erteila (1st century AD). The research made it possible to trace the typological similarities in the evolution of the studied societies in cultural and historical contexts. The main fields of the research were epigraphy, iconography, social history, and material culture. Many previously unknown monuments discovered by Russian archaeologists in Egypt and Sudan were introduced into scientific discourse. The basis was created for studying the Nile valley as a contact zone between the Mediterranean world and Africa.

Delayed reinfection of Schistosoma mansoni in the Blue Nile Valley of western Ethiopia 10 years after mass chemotherapy

Acta Tropica ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svein Gunner Gundersen ◽  
Hailu Birrie ◽  
Hans Petter Torvik ◽  
Girmay Medhin ◽  
Hindjifata Mengesha
Keyword(s):  
Schistosoma Mansoni ◽  
Nile Valley ◽  
Blue Nile ◽  
Western Ethiopia

Rock Paintings in the Libyan Desert

Antiquity ◽  
1936 ◽  
Vol 10 (38) ◽  
pp. 175-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. B. Kennedy Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Nile Valley ◽  
Rock Paintings ◽  
Libyan Desert ◽  
Thomas Browne

‘Time’, wrote Sir Thomas Browne, ‘which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things, hath yet spared these minor monuments’. The Nile Valley is full of major monuments—pyramids, tombs and temples; each expedition which goes into the Libyan Desert learns that it is well-filled with minor ones and remarkable among these are paintings and gravings on rocks.

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