Ancient flood technology The Egyptians made the most of the flood season in other ways too. They built embankments and dykes along the Nile to control the flow of water, so that the flooding would ...

Ancient Egypt, one of the world’s earliest and most influential civilizations, rose along the fertile banks of the Nile River. The civilization’s wealth and power were built on agriculture, trade, and ...

From ancient Egypt to medieval England, cultivating one or more crops in the same field was common practice among many farmers for thousands of years. However, in the last century, food producers ...