Lake Tritonis was still around when Herodotus was in Egypt (500 BC), OTOH, it was drying out. He describes a single large, visible dune as the only sand in Egypt, which is a little amazing to me. :’)
9 posted on 09/08/2012 10:10:44 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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