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.

While Nile cruises are available year-round, the prime travel window spans October through April—when cooler temperatures ...

It helped people to easily access the water from the River Nile. They built a system of canals ... the river then flooded onto the land surrounding it. When the flood water drained away again ...