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http://www.rockwood.k12.mo.us/rsouth/gieseler/EGYPT/farming_along_the_nile.htm\nhttp://www.digitalblair.net/E_farming.htm\nhttp://www.kingtutshop.com/freeinfo/Ancient-Egyptian-Calendar.htm\nCHeck out these sites as well as this one\nhttp://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/\nI think you might find your answers there. There is a cool game too about the flood and growing crops. Enjoy.
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Triangular Clay Weight \n\nDuring the Bronze Age, triangles of clay may have been used to weigh other substances on a scale.
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FEMA defines it as: "the flood elevation that has a 1- percent chance of being equaled or exceeded each year." This doesn't mean the area can expect a flood every 100 years. The 100-year flood plain is often used by towns and cities when planning developments and roads. Structures or homes built within the 100-year flood plain often need special permits or flood insurance.
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Usually river depth and "crest" are measured from the bottom of the river at some location, say a bridge, or a piling driven into the riverbed for this purpose.\n\nCrest is the highest level the measurement reaches after it starts rising. Flood Stage is the depth at which the river begins to overflow its banks.  The location of the bank is pretty arbitrary, but always defined so as to indicate that a higher water level will damage something.
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Great Pyramid of Giza 2550 BC Egyptians still standing still standing \nHanging Gardens of Babylon 600 BC Babylonians   destroied after  1st century BC earthquake \nTemple of Artemis at Ephesus 550 BC Lydians, Greeks 356 BC fire \nStatue of Zeus at Olympia 435 BC Greeks  destroied 5th-6th centuries AD fire \nMausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus 351 BC Persians, Greeks by 1494 AD earthquake \nColossus of Rhodes 292-280 BC Hellenistic Greece 224 BC earthquake \nLighthouse of Alexandria 3rd century BC Hellenistic Egypt 1303-1480 AD earthquake
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Um,let's see. The Nile River, which I believe begins at Lake Victoria in Africa, every year had a "flood" (from melting snows in the mountains around the lake) in which the river would literally overflow flooding the surrounding areas which then created a "season" or "seasons " of planting and harvesting (I do have a point, hang on). This "cycle", if you will, eventually evolved and created the civilization of the Egytians whose economy, religion, societal regulations and the royal hierarchy form of government. Because of the development of this birth/death/rebirth concept of religion (if I am incorrect here someone kindly correct me) which evolved due to the above-mentioned river flooding (birth), planting (death) and harvesting (re-birth), the Egyptian religion and philosophy was one of "you CAN take it with you" because if your heart was "judged" to be "good" indicated by the symbol of a feather (paraphrasing for space issues here) you crossed over into the "underworld" of the god "Anubis". So, many of the pharoahs (kings), their relatives, and other 'high society' types were buried with not only their physical belongings but also with their "slaves" or servants and gold and money and anything they would need to live in the afterworld.\nNow, if you're still with me, according to the Time/Life "Great Ages of Man" "Ancient Egypt" book, many of the gods of Egypt were associated with the animals who lived in the areas around the river. If you look at some of the gods of Egypt, there are many with heads of animals:i.e. Horus with the head of a bird, Anubis with the jackal head and Thoth with both an ibis and a baboon head, to name a few. This is one way in which the environment had a direct impact on the Egyptians and their lives, deaths and especially their monuments such as the pyramids and burial temples in the Valley of the Kings. Because the weather of that general area of the world is and was hot and arid(dry)the temples and monuments of the Egyptian kings and queens took advantage of the heat to build such monuments as the pyramids (again,someone correct me if I am wrong)! The Nile river and it's relationship to the burial sites of the Egyptians was one of total involvement and influence. Everything about the Egyptians revolved around the river which literally created their civilization.\nI hope this helped.\nAlso: I have just read a news report this week(source unknown) that the waters which have and do supply the Nile river's life-giving waters since the record of human existence in that area will dry up in approximately 20 years!! This is a serious concern because this will have a worldwide impact on the earth and its living inhabitants! I don't know whom to contact about dealing with this problem immediately, but if anyone does, kindly let me and everyone else know!!
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Floods are measured using electronic sensors & gauges in the rivers' banks & on the sides of bridges. Sometimes they still use the wire from the bridge & the oldest trick, the ruler method.\n\nThe USGS has them located along major creeks, streams, & rivers.\n\nThey are especially important where roadways cross running water or are nearby housing developments.
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The ancient Egyptians were perfectly capable of using the basic mathematics necessary for the construction and layout of most pyramids. Despite the superb accuracy of the layout and plan, this was not impossible for them to achieve, nor did it require calculus. While no mathematical texts from the Old Kingdom survive, texts from the Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period demonstrate a clear familiarity on the part of the Egyptians with basic arithmetic, geometry, and trigonometry.\n\nThere is absolutely no evidence that alien help was needed to construct the pyramids, which were intended as tombs for Egyptian kings.\nSome of the best evidence for human responsibility, and specifically Egyptian human responsibility dating to the 4th Dynasty, for the construction of pyramids comes from the site of Giza itself. Giza is the place most people think of when they think of Egyptian pyramids, though there are numerous pyramids in other areas of Egypt and Nubia and the Giza pyramids are by no means the earliest pyramids constructed in Egypt.\nAlso of significance are a number of inscriptions associated with the so-called "Great Pyramid" of Khafre at Giza. One of the inscriptions on a stone block making up the pyramid gives the name and regnal year of Khafre. Others bear the names given to crews of workmen responsible for moving the stone blocks into place. At least one of these inscriptions is located in an area almost impossible to reach - frequently the inscription is examined using a mirror - thus making it highly unlikely that it was a later addition.\n\n\n\n\n\nThe pyramid is thought to have developed out of the mastaba tomb. Mastaba is an Arabic word, meaning bench, which was applied to the flat-topped, slope sided superstructures of tombs. The pyramid is also thought to be associated with solar worship and the "ben-ben" stone which played a major role in sun worship and was vaguely pyramid shaped.\n\nIn the 3rd Dynasty, several mastabas were stacked forming the Step Pyramid of King Djoser. By the 4th Dynasty in the reign of Snefru attempts at building a true pyramid were underway. The pyramids of the 4th and 5th Dynasties, including those at Giza, essentially reflect the further refinement of the pyramid, the chambers within it, and the associated temple complexes. Eventually the standard style was an orientation of east to west (significant in Egyptian religion), with a pyramid temple, located directly on the east side of the pyramid, and a causeway leading to the "valley temple" located near the Nile at the edge of the cultivation.\nWhile it is accepted by reputable Egyptologists that pyramids served as burials for kings, the exact details of the theology behind them remains unclear. One idea, popularized I believe by Dr. Mark Lehner, one of the foremost experts on Egyptian pyramids, is that pyramids served as "resurrection machines" providing all the necessary means for eternal life with the gods for the dead king.\nIn the late 5th Dynasty in the Pyramid of Unas at Saqqara, we have the first appearance of formal texts within the pyramid itself - the appropriately-named Pyramid Texts. These texts are somewhat esoteric and are essentially a collection of spells, stories, and guides relating to the Underworld. Initially these texts were limited to royalty. In succeeding pyramids, elements of the Pyramid Texts were included in the "Coffin Texts" of the First Intermediate and Middle Kingdom and in the "Book of the Dead" of the New Kingdom - texts available to a broad spectrum of society.\n\nPyramid construction continued in the Middle Kingdom - again limited to royalty, but not on the grand scale of the Old Kingdom. The last known royal pyramids located in Egypt are that of King Ahmose, founder of the 18th Dynasty of the New Kingdom (ca. 1550 BCE) and the pyramid-cenotaph constructed for his grandmother, Queen Tetisheri. Both are located at Abydos.\n\nIn the New Kin
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The water flows in opposite directions, which is what made the Red Sea part for Moses. Temporary equatoritus.
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your best bet is to look here:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt
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People have been looking for that for 2000 years or more. Nothing has been found.\n\nGeological and archeological evidence shows there WAS a big flood in the middle east, south of the Black Sea, some time between human installation and the beginning of recorded history, but nothing as world destroying as described in the bible.
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The average depth of the Red Sea is from 2500 to 3500 feet though in places it is about 7200 feet deep.
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Its a cataract the word came from achient egyptain culture becouse they couldent get up the nile river becouse of the cataract cataract meens steep elevation with flowing water
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There is a timeline here:\nhttp://www.worldwideaquatics.com/historyswim.htm\n\nwhich says that the egyptians use hieroglyphs depicting swimming as early as 2500 BC\n\nand a much more detailed website here:\nhttp://home.comcast.net/~hot_tub/history-of-swimming.htm
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Southern Illinois is sometimes referred to as Little Egypt.  One reason for this is that the 2 rivers, Ohio and Mississippi, form a kind of a delta.  That is similar to Egypts Nile and Euphrates. \n\nAlso, the city of Chicago used to be a huge swamp that was drained to make room for the city.
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The old testament has proved useful in dating known events in ancient Egypt.
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The majority of Egypitans were involved with either agriculture or craftsman type work (i.e. potters, metalworkers, tentmakers, etc.).  Since agriculture in Egypt is highly seasonal and based on the flooding of the Nile, it has come to be accepted that the agricultural workforce was transferred to monument building during the non-harvest season.