Hans Wrote:
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> Hermione Wrote:
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> > (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.
Well ... but those ruins weren't visible in Herodotus' time, were they ... ? Or were they?
And there's this:
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... a cut was made from the Nile, so that the site of these into an island [de Selincourt 1972: 179: Hdt. Bk II, 126]
There are countless problems with Herodotus, of course, including the question of whether he actually visited Egypt at all, let alone visited Giza in person (see e.g., Did Herodotus Ever Go to Egypt? O. Kimball Armayor, JARCE, Vol. 15 (1978), pp. 59-73: 70-71).
However, even if Herodotus was just at home listening to some Egyptian priests who happened to be visiting, what the priests said is still an indication of contemporary belief about the pyramids.
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