In the myth, Sekhmet's blood-lust was not quelled at the end of battle and led to her destroying almost all of humanity, so Ra had tricked her by turning the Nile as red as blood ( the Nile turns red every year when filled with silt during inundation ) so that Sekhmet would drink it.

In the myth, Sekhmet's blood-lust was not quelled at the end of battle and led to her destroying almost all of humanity, so Ra had tricked her by turning the Nile as red as blood ( the Nile turns red every year when filled with silt during inundation ) so that Sekhmet would drink it.

Color, as well, had extended meaning — Blue and green represented the Nile and life ; yellow stood for the sun god ; and red represented power and vitality.

Cleopatra ’ s Needle is a 240-ton, 68 foot 10 inch, single shaft of red granite from the Assuân ( formerly Syene ) Quarries at the 1st Cataract of the Nile.

Nile red ( also known as Nile blue oxazone ) is formed by boiling Nile blue with sulfuric acid.

This produces a mix of Nile red and Nile blue.

Nile red is a lipophilic stain ; it will accumulate in lipid globules inside cells, staining them red.

Nile red can be used with living cells.

During autumn, parts of the Nile River are red with lotus flowers.

-Oxazine derivatives: Nile red, Nile blue, cresyl violet, oxazine 170 etc.

Nile red under visible and ultraviolet ( 366 nm ) light in different solvents From left to right: 1. water, 2. methanol, 3. ethanol, 4. acetonitrile, 5. dimethylformamide, 6. acetone, 7. ethyl acetate, 8. dichloromethane, 9. n-hexane, 10.

Nile red stains intracellular lipid droplets red.

) There are also numerous instances where the killer is not brought to justice in the legal sense but instead dies ( death usually being presented as a more ' sympathetic ' outcome ), for example Death Comes as the End, And Then There Were None, Death on the Nile, Dumb Witness, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Crooked House, Appointment with Death, The Hollow, Nemesis, Cat Among the Pigeons, and The Secret Adversary.

The Battle of the Nile ( also known as the Battle of Aboukir Bay, in French as the Bataille d ' Aboukir or in Egyptian Arabic as معركة أبي قير البحرية ) was a major naval battle fought between British and French fleets at Aboukir Bay on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt from 1 – 3 August 1798.

East of the lake, the basin rises gradually to the Ouaddaï Highlands, which mark Chad's eastern border and also divide the Chad and Nile watersheds.

In antiquity, the Greek historian Herodotus mentioned that the world had been divided by unknown persons into three parts, Europe, Asia, and Libya ( Africa ), with the Nile and the River Phasis forming their boundaries — though he also states that some considered the River Don, rather than the Phasis, as the boundary between Europe and Asia.

The Nile Valley is also known as Upper Egypt, while the Nile Delta region is known as Lower Egypt.

The much shorter Atbara River, which also originates in Ethiopia, joins the main Nile north of Khartoum between the fifth and sixth cataracts ( areas of steep rapids ) and provides about 14 % of the Nile's waters in Egypt.

The dams have also affected the Nile Valley's fertility, which was dependent for centuries not only on the water brought to the arable land but also on the materials left by the water.

It also has a complex of irregular, sharply cut wadis that extend westward toward the Nile.

Nile crocodiles can also be a threat to giraffes when they bend down to drink.

Lake Tana ( also spelled T ' ana, Amharic: ጣና ሐይቅ Ṭānā Hāyḳ ," Lake Tana ," an older variant is Tsana, Ge ' ez ጻና Ṣānā ; sometimes called " Dembiya " after the region to the north of the lake ) is the source of the Blue Nile and is the largest lake in Ethiopia.

Baum also anonymously wrote The Last Egyptian: A Romance of the Nile.

The region was one of the four riverine civilizations where writing was invented ( it being the first ), along with the Nile valley in Egypt, the Indus Valley in the Indian subcontinent, and Yellow River valley in China ( although writing is also known to have arisen independently in Mesoamerica ).

The Tigris and Euphrates River valleys form the northeastern portion of the Fertile Crescent, which also included the Jordan River valley and that of the Nile.

The Niger is the third-longest river in Africa, exceeded only by the Nile and the Congo River ( also known as the Zaïre River ).

The mouths of the Senegal River and Gambia River are postulated to flow into a lake, which also feeds the " Ger "/ Niger River, which in turn feeds the " Nile Lake " and Nile River.

Ancient Romans such as Pliny ( N. H. 5. 10 ) thought that the river near Timbuktu was part of the Nile River, a belief also held by Ibn Battuta, while early European explorers thought that it flowed west and joined the Senegal River.

Osiris was considered not only a merciful judge of the dead in the afterlife, but also the underworld agency that granted all life, including sprouting vegetation and the fertile flooding of the Nile River.

Regarding the association of Osiris with the ram, the god's traditional crook and flail are the instruments of the shepherd, which has suggested to some scholars also an origin for Osiris in herding tribes of the upper Nile.

From among the writings of others in the same period, there is the inscription and engraving of Darius the great, installed at junction of waters of Red Sea ( also called " Arabian Gulf " or " Ahmar Sea ") and the Nile river and the Rome river ( current Mediterranean ) which belongs to the 5th century BC where, Darius the Great, the king of the Achaemenid Empire has named the Persian Gulf Water Channel: Pars Sea ( Persian Sea ).

Persians were not only stationed on islands of the Persian Gulf, but also had ships often of 100 to 200 capacity patrolling empire's various rivers including Shatt-al-Arab, Tigris, and the Nile in the west, as well as Sind waterway, in India.

It also records that in the eighth year of his reign during a particularly high Nile flood, he had the excess waters dammed for the benefit of the farmers.

Man-made features have also introduced restrictions, the most important of which was a dam constructed in the 1930s on the White Nile about forty kilometers upriver from Khartoum.

In the Middle Ages, they were known as Beja, and convoyed pilgrims from the Nile valley to Aidhab, the port of embarkation for Jeddah.

Low periods of the Nile during the 11th century continued to add to the landscape of Cairo ; a new island, known as Geziret al-Fil, first appeared in 1174, but eventually became connected to the mainland.

In this sense, Libya was the whole known African continent to the west of the Nile Valley and extended south of Egypt.

The connection to the Nile River was made not simply because this was then known as the great river of " Aethiopia " ( by which all lands south of the desert were called by Classical writers ), but because the Nile flooded every summer.

The early history of what is now northern Sudan, along the Nile River, known as the Kingdom of Kush, is intertwined with the history of ancient Egypt, with which it was united politically over several periods.

The more important was the 1, 436-kilometer stretch of the White Nile from Kusti to Juba ( known as the Southern Reach ), which provided the only generally usable transport connection between the central and southern parts of the country.

On the main Nile, a 287-kilometer stretch from Kuraymah to Dunqulah, situated between the fourth and third cataracts and known as the Dunqulah Reach, also had regular service, although this was restricted during the low-water period in February and March.

Next comes the Tyro tribe and, on the Red Sea, the harbour of the Daneoi, from which Sesostris, king of Egypt, intended to carry a ship-canal to where the Nile flows into what is known as the Delta ; this is a distance of over 60 miles.

The archaeological record suggests that this first occurred in the regions known as the Fertile Crescent, and the Nile Delta.

Nile crocodiles, lions and spotted hyenas are known to prey on young hippos.

A 2007 fatal case in akiller whale in Texas broadened the known host range of West Nile virus to include cetaceans.

* The Battle of the Nile, also known as " Battle of Abukir Bay ", the naval battle fought on 1 August 1798

During the Second Intermediate Period, a group of Asiatic foreign chiefs known as the Hyksos ( literally, " rulers of foreign lands ") gained the rulership of Egypt, and ruled the Nile Delta, from Avaris.

The cavernous underground temple, cut into the rock cliffs on the eastern side of the Nile, was admired and called the Speos Artemidos by the Greeks during their occupation of Egypt, known as the Ptolemaic Dynasty.

Two rivers leave the lake, the White Nile ( known as the " Victoria Nile " as it leaves the lake ), flows out at Jinja, Uganda on the lake's north shore, and the Katonga River flows out at Lukaya on the western shore connecting the lake to Lake George.

An excellent map, known as the Al Idrisi map from the calligrapher who developed it and dated from the 1160s, clearly depicts an accurate representation of Lake Victoria, and attributes it as the source of the Nile.