Hermione Wrote:
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> Yes ... Shame Merer doesn't say anything about it.
> Just talks about sailing up and down the Nile ...
> no help at all.


To the best of my knowledge, they talk about sailing times because distance wasn't that important. Travel was by river, not road, and the time depends on which way you're going and what the season is. Knowing that it's 400 miles from Luxor to Cairo was no help to them since there was no way to walk/drive that distance.

So they knew how to measure city street lengths and fields... but not measure the length of the river.

-- Byrd
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