Except for the Nile, is it true that most major rivers of the world flow generally in a North to South or West to East direction? Why not the other way? -
What's up with this map by Herodotus that shows the Nile river running across the Sahara/Sahel from the Atlas Mountains in Morocco? Was he really that far off or was there originally
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Frontiers | The Main Nile Valley at the End of the Pleistocene (28–15 ka): Dispersal Corridor or Environmental Refugium?
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The Nile Basin waters and the West African rainforest: Rethinking the boundaries - Gebrehiwot - 2019 - WIREs Water - Wiley Online Library
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