[Nam Vet]

Maybe all of my super informed buddies here can tell me why ancient tombs, temples, shrines, treasure etc could be built and used for long periods of time but we have to have heavy duty pumps just to view them. Higher water tables? If so, how can that be? Thanks in advance.

Nam Vet

[Tax-chick]

If they’re in northern (”lower”) Egypt, that’s the Delta area, and it’s always been marshy. Water table is high, channels shift, etc.

If they’re in southern (”upper”) Egypt, the Aswan High Dam has raised the water levels, stopped the annual Inundation, and put some of the ancient monuments under water or nearly so.

[SunkenCiv]

Sealevels rise and fall due to natural climate cycles (which last centuries) and changes in elevation (tectonic stress, isostatic rebound, whatever).