Ancient Egypt: Menes and Flooding
02:37 - 05:58
3m 21s
The speakers describe how flooding was a recurring problem in ancient Egypt. They they explain how the first Pharaoh of Egypt's first dynasty, Menes, used innovative engineering to build the first dam to protect Egypt's capital city, Memphis, from the floods. The narrator then goes over how ancient Egyptians engineered their dams based on ancient ruins of another dam.

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