NILE WATERS

A desert is dry not merely because of too little rain. A desert is a desert because of too little water. The presence of water not the absence of rain is what matters most. The land of Egypt is a 1,000 mile-long desert bisected by the Nile River. Thereby, ancient Egypt became the breadbasket of the Biblical world, and real world, when its engineers redirected the Nile's waters to fecundate its dry land. Although, that ancient land is rightly known for, and by, its many stone monuments, papyrus scrolls, navigation, gemstones. philosophy, megaliths, 3 forms of writing: hieroglyphics, hieratic, demotic; magic, medicine, art, musical scales, and mathematics; perhaps its most overlooked achievement is that pertaining to water. Hydrologically, in its tapping into, and redirecting the effluvia-rich Nile, it enabled the "dry bones" in that great river valley to live again.