What Did Ancient Egyptians Do When the Nile Flooded?

What Did Ancient Egyptians Do When the Nile Flooded? All research and sources are linked below. 📚 RESEARCH & SOURCES: ▸ Merer's logbook — "Les papyrus de la mer Rouge I: Le 'Journal de Merer' (Papyrus Jarf A et B)" by Pierre Tallet (2017, Institut français d'archéologie orientale). The publication of the two best-preserved logbooks found at Wadi al-Jarf, recording boat transport of limestone from Tura to Giza. ▸ The Red Sea Scrolls — "The Red Sea Scrolls: How Ancient Papyri Reveal the Secrets of the Pyramids" by Pierre Tallet and Mark Lehner (2021, Thames & Hudson). The 2013 discovery of the papyri and how Merer's crew of about 40 men worked. ▸ The pyramid builders' town — "Giza and the Pyramids: The Definitive History" by Mark Lehner and Zahi Hawass (2017, University of Chicago Press). Worker settlements, cemeteries, and the evidence for a fed and cared-for workforce. ▸ Basin irrigation — "Early Hydraulic Civilization in Egypt" by Karl W. Butzer (1976, University of Chicago Press). ▸ Flood heights and harvests — "Natural History," Book 5, by Pliny the Elder. ▸ Flooded towns and surveying — "Histories," Book 2, by Herodotus. ▸ The seven-year famine — the Famine Stela on Sehel Island, near Aswan. ▸ The end of the flood — Aswan High Dam (completed 1970). ———————————————————— PEOPLE & SITES MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO: ▸ Merer — A middle-ranking official who led a crew of about 40 men under King Khufu. His logbook, written roughly 4,500 years ago, records trips hauling limestone by boat to the Great Pyramid. ▸ Pierre Tallet — French Egyptologist whose team found the papyri at Wadi al-Jarf in 2013. ▸ Mark Lehner and Zahi Hawass — Egyptologists whose decades of work at Giza uncovered the town and cemeteries of the pyramid builders. ▸ Pliny the Elder — Roman writer who recorded how the height of the Nile flood, measured in cubits, meant famine or plenty. ▸ Herodotus — Greek historian who visited Egypt about 2,000 years after the pyramids and described flooded towns standing like islands. ▸ Wadi al-Jarf — An ancient harbor on the Red Sea coast where the oldest inscribed papyri were discovered. ▸ Hapi — The Egyptian god of the Nile flood. ———————————————————— 🎨 Animation by Mind Spark ———————————————————— #ancientegypt #nile #pyramids #egyptology #archaeology #ancienthistory #history #explainer #animation #education #giza #pharaoh #ancientcivilizations #mindspark