How Holocene Nile dynamics shaped the physical and cultural landscape of ancient Nubia
Jan Peeters
A new study in PNAS shows how changes in Nile dynamics shaped the landscape and settlement of ancient Nubia. By reconstructing 12,500 years of river behaviour near Jebel Barkal in Sudan, we found that a stable floodplain helped sustain the Kushite capital of Napata for more than a millennium.