[Bender2]

Well, I'll be... dam!

[blam]

GGG Ping.

Zahi Hawass (SunkenCiv's buddy)

[xone]

Gotta hand it to them dam Egyptians.

[TheThirdRuffian]

A country completely built along a river that had a regular seasonal flood was GOOD AT BUILDING DAMS?!@

WHO DA THUNK IT?

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“According to Hawass, the finding is of grave importance as it proved that the ancient Egyptians were good at building dams.”
I find Egyptian stuff fascinating, but,,,,,,,,, “grave importance?” I don’t think so!
I hope too much money isn’t being spent, cuz when you consider the dire poverty in that country,,,,

[Sacajaweau]

So were beavers. Dams are no big deal.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

“The 230-meter long dam was built during the age of the Middle Kingdom (of ancient Egypt) to protect the temple from the Nile flood,....”

That sounds more like a dike or levee than a dam. Does anyone have pictures they could post?

[SunkenCiv]

One of those topics. Thanks Blam.

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[geopyg]

I remember watching a Discovery-type show on Joseph of the Bible. They found a tomb down in a Jewish section/town in Egypt with a mosaic of a guy with red hair (how the Egyptians portrayed Jews) and the man was wearing a colorful robe (also Jewish - and perhaps a play on “Joseph’s coat of many colors” when he was a young man).

The figure also wears a ring with the King’s seal (or whatever it was) - and indicating that the person was of high rank. No bones were found - although they said when a tomb was sacked all the good stuff is taken - but the theives don’t take the bones. (Joseph’s bones were taken out in the Exodus).

And - up in the mountains (near the tomb I think) there is a place called “Joseph’s Dam” (or something) from the translation. They think prehaps it was built on the orders of Josepth for the impending 7-year drought. (I tried to search this on-line just now but couldn’t come up with anything).

[Huber]

What did the fish say when he swam into the concrete wall?

[aruanan]

Oh, man, to have found such a jar of coins!