> The biggest unknown with my model is whether there was a major western Nile channel at the time, as modern authorities are split on this question.
Seems like what we have now is the discovery of a natural branch, which doesn't mean they didn't dig out useful extensions too.
The Nature article calls this branch a "tributary of the nile", which is the opposite thing to a branch. The paper says distributary (a branch). The tributaries are way to the south in Sudan and Ethiopia and Kenya.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diary_of_Merer
In fact it describes artificial basins, found in previous core samples.
Nice article about that, lots of pictures:
https://the-past.com/feature/records-of-the-pyramid-builders...
> The biggest unknown with my model is whether there was a major western Nile channel at the time, as modern authorities are split on this question.
Seems like what we have now is the discovery of a natural branch, which doesn't mean they didn't dig out useful extensions too.
The Nature article calls this branch a "tributary of the nile", which is the opposite thing to a branch. The paper says distributary (a branch). The tributaries are way to the south in Sudan and Ethiopia and Kenya.
Here's the paper:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01379-7