![TIL that northwestern Africa had a river running from the Atlas Mountains to the western coast of the continent. The river dried up sometime around 5000 bc. : r/todayilearned TIL that northwestern Africa had a river running from the Atlas Mountains to the western coast of the continent. The river dried up sometime around 5000 bc. : r/todayilearned](https://external-preview.redd.it/til-that-northwestern-africa-had-a-river-running-from-the-v0-6BZc5vhm0JGlZX-GMckV5PPCGgwTKMEgzPhmabmKflk.jpg?auto=webp&s=6386cd4c497262ec815dd21e3dad8c449fef8ac0)
TIL that northwestern Africa had a river running from the Atlas Mountains to the western coast of the continent. The river dried up sometime around 5000 bc. : r/todayilearned
![Conveyor belt' of rocks which created Ethiopian mountains kept the Nile course for Egypt | Daily Mail Online Conveyor belt' of rocks which created Ethiopian mountains kept the Nile course for Egypt | Daily Mail Online](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2019/11/12/11/20904578-7673067-Looking_at_a_map_one_might_wonder_why_the_river_didn_t_flow_east-a-7_1573558899061.jpg)
Conveyor belt' of rocks which created Ethiopian mountains kept the Nile course for Egypt | Daily Mail Online
![Frontiers | The Main Nile Valley at the End of the Pleistocene (28–15 ka): Dispersal Corridor or Environmental Refugium? Frontiers | The Main Nile Valley at the End of the Pleistocene (28–15 ka): Dispersal Corridor or Environmental Refugium?](https://www.frontiersin.org/files/Articles/607183/feart-08-607183-HTML/image_m/feart-08-607183-g001.jpg)
Frontiers | The Main Nile Valley at the End of the Pleistocene (28–15 ka): Dispersal Corridor or Environmental Refugium?
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
![The Nile Basin waters and the West African rainforest: Rethinking the boundaries - Gebrehiwot - 2019 - WIREs Water - Wiley Online Library The Nile Basin waters and the West African rainforest: Rethinking the boundaries - Gebrehiwot - 2019 - WIREs Water - Wiley Online Library](https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/126d1446-bded-4dba-898f-3ba3fb615314/wat21317-fig-0003-m.jpg)