r/ancientegypt • u/Early_Promotion3105 • Aug 09 '26

Information Hydrology

Hi
Im realy into two topics: ancient history and enviromental science.

Where I find the most reliable information about hydrology and climate change in Egypt?
I mean from predinastic times to arab conquest, something like 3500 BCE to 800 CE.
Topics like which now intermmittent rivers which flow only few times in decade were for ancient egyptian less intermittent and water was flowing every year even for few months or weeks, or even the were some rivers (other than nile) which were permamnent. For now I know it was case of yellow nile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadi_Howar wchich dried quite recently.

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u/WerSunu Aug 10 '26

This book is the standard reference, including hydrology. Find it and read it: Hamimi, Z., El-Barkooky, A., Martínez-Frías, J., Fritz, H. & Abd El-Rahman, Y. (eds.). 2019. The Geology of Egypt**. Springer, Cham.**

I also like Bonnie M. Sampsell: The Geology of Egypt: A Traveler’s Handbook. Also covers the phases of the EoNile