The Nile’s hidden shift over 4,000 years may have saved an entire ancient African city and preserved Napata for thousands of years

For a city that stood at the heart of an ancient African empire, Napata has long carried an unusual silence around it. Ruins ...
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Study links Napata’s endurance to Nile’s long-term stability

A University of Michigan-led study has found that the ancient Kushite city of Napata flourished for nearly 900 years due to the Nile’s geological stability. Sediment deposits over millennia created a ...