Ancient Egyptian person ... water away from cities and towards fields for farming. This was called basin irrigation. They also invented tools like the shaduf. A shaduf is a long pole with ...

As Egypt's population grows, agricultural land moves closer to ancient temples and funeral monuments. Water for irrigation is weakening temple foundations and eroding the carvings. "We've seen it.

Fortunately for the pharaohs, ancient Egypt was located on the ... so that the flooding would give maximum benefit to the farming areas without threatening nearby buildings and villages. The dykes ...

Archaeologists have discovered the oldest known farming village in Egypt, a 7,000-year-old site whose residents grew wheat and barley, and raised sheep, goats and pigs. Farming probably occurred ...