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Scanning the Nile
S1 E4 | Materials Convoys: A Pharaonic Task
0h 52m|History, Science, Documentary|2020
Elephantine Island houses the oldest Nilometer, which measured the water level; scientists examine how the Nile was used to carry construction stones, and to transport pieces of temples and pharaoh's statues downriver from the stone quarries.
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1