Water technology in ancient Egypt

Larry Mays

doi:10.1007/978-90-481-8632-7_3

Water technology in ancient Egypt

Larry Mays

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Throughout history humans have been fascinated with the Nile River, especially the Egyptian part of the Nile. The birth of this great civilization has been traced back to a time between 11,000 and 10,000 years ago. Around five thousand years ago this civilization started depending entirely on the Nile River and its annual inundation. This chapter traces the history of water engineering in ancient Egypt starting with the uses of water from the annual inundation of the Nile River for natural irrigation in the Predynastic period to the development of methodologies to advance the use of the Nile River for irrigation.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Ancient Water Technologies
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Pages	53-65
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Print)	9789048186310
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8632-7_3
State	Published - 2010

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General Earth and Planetary Sciences

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