The valley of the White Nile, one of two main tributaries of Africa’s longest river, may long ago have held a shallow lake that sprawled 70 kilometers across and stretched more than 500 km along the river.
Satellite images clearly show a continuous string of arc-shaped features that extends about 280 km southward from Esh Shawal, Sudan, along the eastern margin of the White Nile valley.
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