Of course, back when the pharaohs were in charge the lands around The Nile were totally different. The River Nile is more than six thousand five hundred kilometres in length and it passes through a whopping eleven modern day countries. So it's no accident that one of the greatest and longest-lasting civilisations in history, grew up along the banks of one the world's They built a system of canals to bring the water to the crops a process that's called irrigation.
It helped people to easily access the water from the River Nile. The invention of the shaduf was very important in the story of Ancient Egypt. It's a very simple machine that can move large amounts of water. This painting shows a farmworker using a shaduf.
This is a painting that dates back thousands of years to Ancient Egypt.Īrtworks like this tell us a lot about the time and place that they come from.
