The River Nile incubated Egyptian culture. Each spring the Nile would overflow its banks, carrying fertile soil into the valley to be cultivated. Its pattern instructed Egyptians in the circularity and eternal nature of life. From these ideas Egyptians went on to invent the first accurate astronomical calculations, methods for measuring river depth, and much more.
尼羅河是孕育古埃及文明的母親，每年春天定時的泛濫，不但帶來了沃土以培育豐饒的收成，同時也啟示了古埃及人生命的周而復始、生生不息的道理，埃及人因此發明精準的天文曆算與最初用以丈量土地的幾何概念。