For thousands of years, they referred to its annual flooding as the "Gift of the Nile." Each summer, like clockwork, the river would take possession of a strip of land on either side of its banks.

The ancient Egyptians based their farming around the annual flooding of the River Nile. There were three seasons in the Egyptian calendar: Akhet Also called the Season of the Inundation.

The Nile, with its annual floods, was Egypt's lifeline ... This period saw a reduction in Nile River levels, leading to lower crop yields. Archaeological evidence, including sediment deposits ...

joining societies who were already exploiting the resources of the river. By about 3,000 years BC the fertile sediments left by the annual flooding of the Nile left a long strip of arable land ...