محمد محمد زكي

Ancient Egypt can be thought of as an oasis ‎in the desert of northeastern Africa, dependent ‎on the annual inundation of the Nile River to ‎support its agricultural population. The country’s ‎chief wealth came from the fertile floodplain of ‎the Nile valley, where the river flows between ‎bands of limestone hills, and the Nile delta, in ‎which it fans into several branches north of ‎present-day Cairo. Between the floodplain and ‎the hills is a variable band of low desert that ‎supported a certain amount of game. The Nile ‎was Egypt’s sole transportation artery.‎