[SunkenCiv]

meroe site:freerepublic.com

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map of Meroitic Nubia

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royal pyramids in the north Meroe cemetery

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inlaid chest from the cemetery of Karonog; elite Meroitic houses at Ash-Shaukan (right)

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[RightWhale]

a crest height of up to 67 kilometres

The space elevator isn't much higher.

[BossLady]

"Then started a slow decline, precipitated first by the inroads of two desert peoples, the Blemmyes and the Noba"

I see Meroe had no immigration policy either.... ;)

[Straight Vermonter]

[JoeProBono]

Lone "No Damn Dam" Demostrator

[cogitator]

I still remember when Egypt built the Aswan Dam, and they moved the entire temple of Abu Simbel to higher ground above Lake Nasser. The temple would have been underwater otherwise. Here's a picture of either the deconstruction or the reconstruction.

(That's gonna leave a mark.)