Very excited with award of a Australian Research Council Linkage grant to study #NaturalFloodManagement #NFM & nature-based flood mitigation solutions with 6 PIs from Local Land Services & @NSWDPE & our Macquarie University team Lucy Marshall & Tim J. Ralph. Awarded around $1.2m for 4 years. Macquarie University School of Natural Sciences Science and Engineering @ MQU

Another great cohort of #fluvial #geomorphology & #rivermanagment students. Despite heat & humidity we pushed through! Class loved #activelearning & block mode structure of this unit. Hopefully the days of online-only learning are over! Macquarie University School of Natural Sciences Science and Engineering @ MQU Macquarie University's Learning and Teaching Blog Tim J. Ralph

Despite being one of our most valuable ecosystems for people and #nature, wetlands are Earth’s most threatened ecosystem. @RAMSARCONV

Geological surveys have revealed a long-lost branch of the river Nile that ran close to many Egyptian pyramids. The ancient waterway was probably used to transport building materials before it dried up thousands of years ago. newscientist.com/article/243167…

🏜️The pyramids of the Western desert in #Egypt were built alongside a now extinct branch of the Nile River named as the Ahramat Branch and identified using a combination of radar satellite imagery, geophysical data and deep soil coring. 🔗nature.com/articles/s4324…

New findings in Communications Earth & Environment show the ancient path of the #AhramatBranch of the #Nile River. Implications for water access to >30 of the #pyramids in #Egypt! Macquarie University School of Natural Sciences Macquarie University UNCW University of Memphis المعهد القومي للبحوث الفلكية - مرصد حلوان جامعة طنطا Tanta University Centre for Ancient Cultural Heritage & Environment International Rivers doi.org/10.1038/s43247…

This lost channel of the #Nile River, the #AhramatBranch, could be the key to solving the mysteries of the construction of many pyramids of #AncientEgypt Science and Engineering @ MQU UNCW Macquarie University University of Memphis جامعة طنطا Tanta University المعهد القومي للبحوث الفلكية - مرصد حلوان Centre for Ancient Cultural Heritage & Environment theconversation.com/we-mapped-a-lo…

Ancient Nile Project in the news! instagram.com/p/C7C1dMpO67Y/…

Researchers have discovered evidence of an ancient "mega waterway" linking over 30 Egyptian pyramids to the river Nile, which may have been used to transport the enormous slabs of stone that fed the construction of the ancient tombs. bit.ly/4apt4rR

Did the Nile transport pyramid builders? 🏺🌊 New research uncovers a buried tributary that once flowed past 31 pyramids, including Giza! Learn how this ancient "superhighway" shaped Egypt's history. #AncientEgypt #Archaeology #Pyramids discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/p…

Terrific research by Tim Ralph Tim J. Ralph, Suzanne Onstine (U Memphis) & Eman Gohneim (U NCW) + team, mapping a 64km lost branch of the Nile that supported the #pyramid fields of the #Egyptian state #egypt #archaeology theconversation.com/we-mapped-a-lo… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

Many of Egypt's pyramids are built on inhospitable, arid land, far from the Nile River. So how did ancient Egyptians get heavy stone there? Chen Ly says geoscientists may have uncovered an ancient, dried up branch of the Nile nearby. 🎧 link.chtbl.com/newscientist

Researchers have found evidence of a 40-mile-long branch of the Nile River, known tje Ahramat Branch, that flowed some 4,700 years ago along the western banks of the modern Nile by the pyramids at Abusir, Saqqara, Dahshur, Lisht, and Giza. archaeology.org/news/12403-240…

Read more about the mapping of the Ahramat Branch here: theconversation.com/we-mapped-a-lo…

31 pyramids in Egypt, including the Giza pyramid complex, may originally have been built along a 64-km-long branch of the river Nile which has long since been buried beneath farmland and desert. Nature Portfolio

Nature Portfolio The findings, reported in a paper in Communications Earth & Environment, could explain why these pyramids are concentrated in what is now a narrow, inhospitable desert strip. Read the open access article here: nature.com/articles/s4324… UNCW المعهد القومي للبحوث الفلكية - مرصد حلوان UNCW Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences Tim J. Ralph

Join us in person or on zoom this evening for a free lecture by A/Prof Tim Ralph ⁦Tim J. Ralph⁩ 5.30pm Sydney time, all welcome! ⁦Macquarie University History and Archaeology⁩ ⁦Macquarie University⁩ #egypt #archaeology

4 Int’al & Domestic #PhD #scholarships open Macquarie University, Sydney: Natural flood management: Nature-based flood mitigation in the 21st Century. Go to: goto.mq.edu.au/nfm, Tim J. Ralph, Lucy Marshall, Local Land Services, Hunter LLS, ANZGG, Macquarie University School of Natural Sciences, Science and Engineering @ MQU

4 Int’al & Domestic #PhD #scholarships open at Macquarie University, Sydney. Natural flood management: Nature-based flood mitigation in the 21st Century. Go to goto.mq.edu.au/nfm, #rivermanagement, #riverrestoration, #geomorphology, #floodhydrology, #floodrisk, BSG Geomorphology

Interested in water quality? Here is our open-access review of waterborne contaminants in high intensity agriculture and plant production, which highlights the importance of catchment position and connectivity. doi.org/10.1016/j.scit…