The Nile and Ancient Egypt

Judith Bunbury is Senior Tutor at St Edmund's College, Teaching Associate in the Department of Earth Sciences, and member of the MacDonald Research Institute at the University of Cambridge. She has worked on several major sites in Egypt, including the Temples at Karnak and the Giza Pyramids.

• 1. Humans and climate change: how past peoples can inform our responses to landscape and climate change; 2. The green deserts: lakes and playas of the Saharan wet phases; 3. The climate see-saw: the balance between hunter-gathering and farming in the wadis and marshes of the Nile Valley; 4. The development of Egypt's capitals: condensation of the Nile into meandering channels with inhabited levees; 5. Climate change and crisis: differing views of devolution during the First Intermediate Period; 6. Islands in the Nile; 7. The Flood and the New Delta; 8. Renewed Strength in the South: the rise of Thebes (Karnak) and management of the minor channels of the Nile; 9. High tides of Empire: the New Kingdom to Roman period: development of whole Nile water management; 10. Coptic-Islamic times: a well-documental movement of the Nile from Al-Fustat through Babylon; 11. Modern changes to Egypt: dams and irrigation, can we ever control the Nile?; Appendix I. The principles of borehole logging.

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