The Nile is the longest river in the world, stretching north for
approximately 4,000 miles from East Africa to the Mediterranean. Studies
have shown that the River (Iteru, meaning, simply, River, as the
Egyptians called it) gradually changed its location and size over
millions of years. The Nile flows from the mountains in the south to the
Mediterranean in the north. Egyptians traveling to other lands would
comment on the "wrong" flow of other rivers. For example, a text of Tuthmosis I in Nubia describes the great Euphrates river as the "inverted water that goes downstream in going upstream."
