Few people know that the Nile, with its full-flowing current and a river width of 350-400 m, ends here in this place just north of Cairo:
And then its water is disassembled by several small artificial canals running along the river floodplain.
The channels can be seen on the map - even double, apparently with two-way traffic:
I did not find any mention of their construction. Who built them, at what time? Apparently, these are transport and irrigation hydraulic structures. Yes, it is structures, because the width of some is 40-50m. This is enough for the passage of small ships and even more so for boats. The scope of work is simply enormous.
The channels run along the branched channel of the Nile. Why was this done, why was the waterway duplicated? In general, the channels have a total of many hundreds, if not a thousand kilometers. This is a huge amount of work. If these works were done by the ancient Egyptians, then where is this mention? And if in our time, let's say 19-20 centuries, then there are no sources either. Maybe there is something on the English-speaking Internet. The British were the first to build the Aswan Dam in the 19th century. to regulate the Nile level. It is not excluded that these channels were also dripped. But what kind of mercy to the locals? Or did the fertile fields in the Nile floodplain belong to the British at that time? Then everything is clear.
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These channels cannot be antediluvian (before the catastrophe in the Sahara). They would be covered with sand and silt. There are channels upstream of the river:
And again the wide canal runs parallel to the riverbed. In general, all canals are laid in the Nile floodplain. And the floodplain is 13-15 km wide. In it, fields are broken and crops are grown.
Perhaps these channels were transport routes through which one could get up the Nile. I think it was either unrealistic or very difficult to climb the Nile itself in boats with oars.
The construction of canals did exist in ancient Egypt. Here's a mention:
The construction site was abandoned. Egyptologists write that the reason is the negative prediction of the oracle. Somehow I do not really believe in such a reason. Perhaps something else prevented the completion of the project (like many things in that Egypt).
Why did they write that this channel was never built when it exists in our time? From the Nile through it you can get to the Suez Canal, i.e. to the Red Sea.
Here it departs from the Nile bed.
And at this point it flows into the Suez Canal just north of the Big Bitter Lake:
It is possible that this channel was completed or cleared after the ancient Egyptians.
The vehicle of the ancient Egyptians:
The papyri also depict large boats with rowers.
This is the Solar boat of Pharaoh Cheops. Reconstruction. It was believed that this is a purely ritual boat. But then traces were found that it was used for its intended purpose. The rook was found in a rook pit near the pyramid:
The rook consisted of over 1200 elements. Perhaps it was taken apart and moved to the pyramid for ritual purposes.
It is believed that Cheops was like Peter I at that time - the builder of the fleet. Near modern Wadi ad-Jarf, even a surviving breakwater and the remains of ships were found (24 anchors, the remains of 99 ships and the ruins of some buildings)
In general, the safety of the tree is surprising. Do you think it may lie for many hundreds of years and will remain so. Many wooden products have been found in Egypt.
If all these canals were not built in the 19-20 centuries. with the help of technology, steam excavators, for example, Ancient Egypt can also be called the builders of canals, which, in terms of the scale of work, far exceed the volume of the Giza pyramids.
Author: sibved