The 4,500-Year-Old Egyptian Man Found In A Tomb — And The DNA Test That Revealed His Unexpected Ancestry
The Nile was not merely a river in Old Kingdom Egypt.
It was the axis of the entire civilization — the source of agricultural fertility through its annual flood, the highway along which goods and people moved, the organizing principle around which the Egyptian state was structured.
Egypt was, as the ancient Greeks would later observe, a gift of the Nile.
The seasonal flooding of the Nile — the inundation, called Akhet in ancient Egyptian — was the central event of the agricultural year.
As the floodwaters receded in September and October, they left behind a layer of rich, dark silt that would support the crops planted in November and harvested in spring.
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