Great Pyramids of Giza The Great Pyramids of Giza overlook the Nile River in Egypt.

吉萨大金字塔吉萨大金字塔俯瞰着埃及的。

Egypt is one of the oldest civilizations on the planet, an ancient empire of pyramids and pharaohs, gods and hieroglyphs and mummies, all developing along the banks of the Nile River, beginning over 4600 years ago.

埃及是地球上最古老的文明之一，一个由金字塔、法老、神灵、象形文字和木乃伊组成的古老帝国，从 4600 多年前开始，着发展。

The waterway becomes the River Nile from the point of confluence of the two rivers.

两条在一点处汇合成了。

And the reason that we're in here is because around 1,000 years ago a mathematician named Al-Hassan Ibn al-Haytham made a promise to the ruler of Egypt that he'd build a dam across the Nile River to stop its catastrophic floods.

我们在这里的原因是因为大约 1000 年前，一位名叫阿尔·哈森·伊本·阿尔·海瑟姆的数学家向埃及国王承他将在上修建一座大坝来阻止灾难性的洪水。

The country uneasily shares the waters of the Nile River with Egypt and Ethiopia.

该国不安地与埃及和埃塞俄比亚共享水域。

The Nile River has two sources, the Blue Nile and the White Nile.

有两个源头，青和白。

For you see as universally important as the Nile River is to Egypt, the river and all the water that flows through it does not begin in Egypt.

虽然对埃及具有举世瞩目的重要意义，但与流经的所有水源都不是发源于埃及。

The Cold War also affected the Middle East. In the nineteen fifties, both East and West offered aid to Egypt to build the Aswan High Dam on the Nile River.

冷战也影响了中东。20世纪50年代，东西方都向埃及提供援助，在上修建阿斯旺大坝。

Most of the time, that flooding was neither predictable, nor helpful; except for the Nile River, whose floods were regular, provided water for irrigation, and were thought to be of divine significance.

大多数时候，洪水既不可预测，也没有帮助；除了，它的洪水是有规律的，为灌溉提供水源，并被认为具有神圣的意义。

She was on a visit to Meroe, a city on the east side of the Nile River about 200 kilometers to the northeast of the capital Khartoum.

她当时在东部的城市麦埃游览，该市距首都喀土穆东北部约200公里。

In the nineteen fifties, both East and West offered aid to Egypt to build the Aswan High Dam on the Nile River.

20世纪50年代，东西方都帮助埃及在上修建阿斯旺大坝。

Flood water caused the Blue Nile River to swell to its highest level since records began more than a century ago.

洪水导致青涨至一个多世纪前有记录以来的最高水位。

For more than 1,000 years, it has stood on the banks of the Nile River, the longest in the world.

1000多年来，它一直矗立在世界最长流——边。

Though the Nile river is much longer, the Congo river holds Africa's record for amount of water flowing through it.

虽然更长，刚果却是非洲水量最大的流。

Some Egyptians raided and set fire to two government offices in Giza, a city across the Nile River from Cairo.

一些埃及人袭击并纵火焚烧了与开隔相望的城市吉萨两间政府办公室。

In another room, Ruffo designed a modern version of one of the library's ancient maps of the Nile River.

在另一个房间里，鲁弗设计了图书馆的一幅古代地图的现代版本。

These cows are miniatures - small models, hand-moulded out of a single lump of Nile river clay.

这四只牛是实物小缩影，或者说是小模型，一次性手工造模成型，材料是一小块粘土。

Problem was, Ibn al-Haytham had never seen the Nile River.

问题是，伊本·阿尔·海瑟姆从未见过。

Eventually, the Blue and White Nile tributaries converge to the city of Khartoum in modern-day Sudan and then joined together to form the full Nile River from there all the way through Egypt and the Delta into the Mediterranean.

最终，青和白支流汇聚到现代苏丹的喀土穆市，然后汇合成全，从那里一路穿过埃及和三角洲，流入地中海。

Now, they can go to the heart of the country: Cairo and the Nile River Valley that holds most of its famous archaeological sites.

现在，他们又允许游客参观其腹地：开和谷，埃及的大多数知名考古遗址都在这里。