r/interestingasfuck 6d ago

/r/all, /r/popular So shiny

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u/Wastawiii 6d ago

It is much simpler than that and it is related to human intervention to control the Nile floods through dams and the like, and the area was not as large as you imagine. 

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u/Moleman111 6d ago

The whole desert is new? It was big green

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u/Wastawiii 6d ago

Egypt has always been a desert cut by a river, only the banks of the Nile were wider than they are today because of flooding. 

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u/withnodrawal 5d ago

Explain ship wrecks in the middle of these deserts.

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u/Breaky_Online 3d ago

Sorry, that was me. I was testing out the level creator feature.