Book contents
- The Nile and Ancient Egypt
- The Nile and Ancient Egypt
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Humans and Climate Change: How Past Peoples Can Inform Our Responses to Landscape and Climate Change
- 2 The Green Deserts: Lakes and Playas of the Saharan Wet Phases
- 3 The Climate Seesaw: The Balance between Hunter-Gathering and Farming in the Wadis and Marshes of the Nile Valley
- 4 The Development of Egypt’s Capitals: Condensation of the Nile into Meandering Channels with Inhabited Levees
- 5 Climate Change and Crisis: Differing Views of Devolution across the First Intermediate Period
- 6 Islands in the Nile
- 7 The Flood and the New Delta
- 8 Renewed Strength in the South: The Rise of Thebes (Karnak) and Management of the Minor Channels of the Nile
- 9 High Tides of Empire: The New Kingdom to the Roman Period – Development of Large-Scale Nile Water Management
- 10 From Coptic to Islamic Times: A Well-Documented Movement of the Nile from Al-Fustat through Babylon
- 11 Modern Changes to Egypt: Dams and Irrigation: Can We Ever Control the Nile?
- Appendix Landscape Interpretation Tips
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
11 - Modern Changes to Egypt: Dams and Irrigation: Can We Ever Control the Nile?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 June 2019
Book contents
- The Nile and Ancient Egypt
- The Nile and Ancient Egypt
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Humans and Climate Change: How Past Peoples Can Inform Our Responses to Landscape and Climate Change
- 2 The Green Deserts: Lakes and Playas of the Saharan Wet Phases
- 3 The Climate Seesaw: The Balance between Hunter-Gathering and Farming in the Wadis and Marshes of the Nile Valley
- 4 The Development of Egypt’s Capitals: Condensation of the Nile into Meandering Channels with Inhabited Levees
- 5 Climate Change and Crisis: Differing Views of Devolution across the First Intermediate Period
- 6 Islands in the Nile
- 7 The Flood and the New Delta
- 8 Renewed Strength in the South: The Rise of Thebes (Karnak) and Management of the Minor Channels of the Nile
- 9 High Tides of Empire: The New Kingdom to the Roman Period – Development of Large-Scale Nile Water Management
- 10 From Coptic to Islamic Times: A Well-Documented Movement of the Nile from Al-Fustat through Babylon
- 11 Modern Changes to Egypt: Dams and Irrigation: Can We Ever Control the Nile?
- Appendix Landscape Interpretation Tips
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The Nile story ends for now in modern times, with the continued adaption of modern Egyptians to their ever-changing landscape. To an extent, the Aswan High Dam has controlled the Nile, breaking the flood cycle and bringing stability to most Egyptians, enabling the city to expand and sprawl out across the Nile Valley without fear of deluge or lack of water for crops. However, in doing so, the fertile sediments and nutrient-rich silts that followed the retreat of the floods are no more. One thing is for sure, the resourceful Egyptians will always adapt to these challenges and innovate, in the same way that their forebears did.
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- The Nile and Ancient EgyptChanging Land- and Waterscapes, from the Neolithic to the Roman Era, pp. 139 - 146Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019