A 600-mile-long network of stone walls along the Nile served as an ancient water management system.
A vast number of stone walls spread across more than 600 miles of the Nile River were constructed over a period of 3,000 years and"functioned as flood and flow control structures," new research reveals.
The groynes appear to have been built over a span of thousands of years. Some examples found near the ancient site of Amara West, in modern-day Sudan, date back more than 3,000 years, but others are only decades old. Some may have been constructed when ancient Egypt controlled the area, while others were built at a time when the Kingdom of Kush, or various other states flourished in the region.
Modern-day farmers in the region that researchers interviewed said that walls like these help capture silt from floods, which makes the soil more fertile. The walls also help prevent erosion by the Nile River, the farmers said. —110 ancient Egyptian tombs, including baby burials, found along Nile "The groynes that the team describe from the Nile Valley are very interesting and [consistent] with observations of other water-management systems across Egypt during the period [in ancient times]," Judith Bunbury, a geoarchaeologist at the University of Cambridge who wasn't involved in the research, told Live Science in an email.
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