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May 8, 2024, 12:41 pm UTC    
June 29, 2007 05:46PM
It's also interesting that the ancients created a lake.

Herodotus said that it was claimed that the Lake Moeris was man-made
but this is likely hyperbole and not the one to which I'm referring.

A lake was built for Senezemib of 1200 C (~600 yards). Lake Moeris
would be relatively easy to build inasmuch as it lies below sea level
and below the Nile. A little digging and scraping and you have a lake.

But where else in ancient Egypt was there a place to build a lake? Right
off the bat you've either got to have something below Nile level or you
have to have water higher than the Nile. This area is all agreed to be
desert so where could such a lake be built. Original sources say that
Senezemib is buried at Giza.

So, which is it: It wasn't a desert, there were streams flowing into
the Nile, or there was enough water pressure to build a lake for a very
important clerk/ librarian?

I believe these are very basic and very legitimate questions.



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