Hermione Wrote:
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> Thanks for the quotes, Hans.
>
> Where Herodotus has the edge on the other ancient
> writers, of course, is that he's some centuries
> before Strabo.
>
> (I'm just wondering now (given that the Nile is
> today about 5 miles from the GP) whether the
> legend about the canal reflects some dim memory of
> Ro-She-Khufu (see e.g. here
> [www.aeraweb.org]
> pgs 1-3). I presume this possible association has
> already been discussed elsewhere ... )

Probably there might have been identifiable ruins of said harbor and perhaps a canal to the Nile.

Put in a message farther down comments by medieval writers about the pyramids - also calling them tombs.

I had all this information on hand - Cladking already knows all this - he is just playing dumb because he is desperate for attention. No one talks to him anymore so he must be lonely. LOL

Trolling for attention.