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	Lake Of Moeris - LoveToKnow 1911
		The borders of the lake were occupied by a neolithic people, and the town of Crocodilopolis grew up very early on the eastern slope south of the channel, where the higher ground formed a ridge in the lake.
		As the Nile fell the broad expanse of the lake lowered, and the water pouring back through the channel was of value for summer irrigation; the inflow and outflow were regulated by sluices, and the capture of fish here and in the lake was enormous.
		The native name of the lake was Shei, " the lake," later Piom, " the sea " (whence Fayum); Teshei, " the land of the lake," was the early name of the region.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Lake_Of_Moeris (545 words)

	Fayum - LoveToKnow Watches
		Differing from the typical oasis, whose fertility depends on water obtained from springs, the cultivated land in the Fayum is formed of Nile mud brought down by the Bahr Yusuf.
		Lake Kerun abounds in fish, notably the bulli (Nile carp), of which considerable quantities are sent to Cairo.
		Medinet el-Fayum (or Medina), the capital of the province, is a great agricultural centre, with a population which increased from 26,000 in 1882 to 37,320 in 1907, and has several large bazaars, mosques, baths and a much-frequented weekly market.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Fayum (489 words)

	Al Fayyum Governorate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Having an area of 490 mile² (1,270 km²), Al Fayyum is an oasis and a distinctive region in character between the main Nile Valley and other desert oases: its fields are watered by a channel of the Nile, the Bahr Yussef, as it drains into a desert depression to the west of the Nile Valley.
		Lake Kerun abounds in fish, notably the bulti (Nile carp), of which considerable quantities are sent to Cairo.
		There is evidence of ancient Egyptian pharaohs of the twelfth dynasty using the natural lake of the Fayyum as a reservoir to store surpluses of water for use during the dry seasons.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Al_Fayyum_Governorate (1016 words)

	Bahr Yussef - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This was originally in prehistoric times a natural offshoot of the Nile which created a lake to the west during high floods.
		Around 2300 BC, this was made into a canal by being widened and deepened by Amenemhat IV of the 12th dynasty to create Lake Moeris.
		The canal was controlled by the Ha-Uar Dam, which was actually two dams that regulated the flow into the lake and out of the Nile.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bahr_Yussef (215 words)

	Lake of Moeris - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Lake, large, inland body of fresh or salty standing water.
		Lakes are distinguished from bodies of water such as bays and gulfs, and some seas, that...
		Baikal, Lake, lake in southern Siberian Russia, the deepest lake in the world with a maximum depth of 1,637 m (5,371 ft).
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=Lake+of+Moeris (121 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Moeris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The size of the lake is much reduced from that described by ancient travelers, such as Herodotus.
		Crocodilopolis (later Arsinoë) was the chief town on the lake and a residence of the Ptolemies.
		As a result, Lake Karun is fed by a canal from the Nile River.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/Moeris.asp (231 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Environment \| Polluted playground (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Lake Qaroun, which is one of oldest, if not the oldest, lakes in Egypt, was known to ancient Egyptians as lake moeris, (the great lake).
		The salinity of Lake Qaroun has increased considerably since measurements were first taken in 1906, when it was about 12 per cent, rising to 26.6 per cent in 1958 and 35.1 per cent in 1998.
		The lake was resurrected in the 12th Dynasty by Amenemhat I (1994-1964 BC), who widened and deepened the channel connecting the lake to the Nile -- this canal is now known as Bahr Youssef.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2006/780/en2.htm (1568 words)

	Exercises to support the title The Hydraulics of Open Channel Flow by Hubert Chanson published by Arnold
		The Lake was used to regulate the Nile river and as a water reservoir for irrigation purposes.
		The abandonment of the lake Moeris was primarily caused by the fact that the Lahoun branch of the Nile (i.e.
		From BC 230, the canal was abandoned and the area inundated by Lake Moeris became the province of Fayoum as it is today.
	www.bh.com /companions/0340740671/exercises/prob2.htm (4036 words)

	The Labyrinth
		The length of the lake is north and south, and its depth at the deepest is 50 fathoms [300 feet].
		The water in the lake is not fed with natural springs, for the country here is terribly waterless, but it enters the lake from the Nile by a channel; and for 6 months it flows into the lake, and then, another 6, it flows again into the Nile.
		The nearby lake is called Lake Moeris (which was named, according to Edwards, not after the pre-nomen of Amenemhet III but after either a town on the lake called Miwer or the canal with the same name that fed the lake, which existed long before his reign).
	www.catchpenny.org /labyrin.html (2986 words)

	Faiyum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The extent of the lake surface in different periods is obviously important for the archaeology of the Faiyum.
		Lake Qarun, at the north and lowest part of the Faiyum depression, has had a long legacy of change throughout archaeological time, and has both increased and decreased at different stages, which has caused some confusion to early archaeologists who assumed that the lake had simply decreased over time, and did not envisage fluctuations.
		Understanding Lake Qarun’s status at different times is of fundamental importance to archaeologists: “the Holocene history of the lake is characterized by a number of fluctuations which are of the utmost importance for the understanding of the history of occupation around the lake” (Hendrickx and Vermeersch 2000 p.36).
	www.faiyum.com /html/faiyum.html (3641 words)

	More Information - Lake Moeris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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	lake.moeris.en.news-signup.info (622 words)

	Fayyum, Egypt
		By the beginning of the historical period the lake had shrunk in size and may have extended in the north as far as the little desert Temple of Qasr el-Sagha, in the south to Biahmu and the area between Abshawai and Agamiyin.
		To the south of the lake was a narrow strip of cultivable land known as Ta-she ("Lake-Land"), with the chief town, Shedet (Crocodilopolis), which was protected against flooding by embankments.
		According to Strabo "Lake Moeris is capable, thanks to its size and depth, of taking in the surplus water during the inundation without flooding the inhabited and cultivated area, and later, when the water subsides, of returning the excess through the same canal (i.e.
	www.planetware.com /egypt/fayyum-egy-elfay-fayy.htm (831 words)

	Oasis of Fayoum, hydraulic remains and ancient cultural landscapes - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
		Herodotus, who visited it in 460 BC, spoke of "Lake Moeris" which seems to correspond to a smaller lake, perhaps not as shrunk as the one today, but certainly not the "inland sea" of remote times.
		In prehistoric times the Fayoum had a vast depression which received, through one of the branches of the Nile, the Bahar Youssef which rises from the north of Assiout, the river's overflow when it was in spate formed the ancient "inland sea".
		Lake Qaroun, what is now left of the great prehistoric lake fed by the great Nile, is today just as saline as the Mediterranean.
	whc.unesco.org /en/tentativelists/1830 (1051 words)

	Mazes and Labyrinths: Chapter II. The Egyptian Labyrinth
		The water for the lake, he says, is brought from the Nile by a canal.
		After referring to the lake and the manner in which it is used as a storage reservoir for the water of the Nile, he proceeds to describe the Labyrinth, "a work equal to the Pyramids." He says it is "a large palace composed of as many palaces as there were formerly nomes.
		He says the latter was constructed by King Moeris, who left a place in the middle where he built himself a sepulchre and two pyramids--one for himself and one for his queen--surmounted by colossal seated statues.
	www.sacred-texts.com /etc/ml/ml05.htm (1142 words)

	Lake of Qarun, Egypt
		The northeast part of the Fayyum Oasis is occupied by the Birket Qarun, the Lake of Qarun (the Korah of Numbers 16:1), which is the surviving part of the much larger Lake Moeris of ancient times.
		The north side of the lake is barren and enclosed by hills rising to a considerable height; the south side is flat, and in many places intensively cultivated right up to the water's edge.
		Bathing in the lake is not possible because of the thick layer of ooze on the bottom.
	www.planetware.com /fayyum/lake-of-qarun-egy-elfay-birqar.htm (190 words)

	Al Fayyum - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Having an area of 490 mile² (1,270 km²), Al Fayyum is an oasis and a distinctive region in character between the main Nile Valley and other desert oases: its fields are watered by a channel of the Nile, the Bahr Yussef, as it drains into a desert depression to the west of the Nile Valley.
		The Bahr Yussef veers west through a narrow neck of land north of Ihnasya, between the archaeological sites of Lahun and Gurob; it then branches out, providing rich agricultural land in the Fayyum basin, draining into the Fayyum lake, freshwater in prehistory, but now a large saltwater lake.
		This region has the earliest evidence for farming in Egypt and was a center of royal activity in the Middle Kingdom and Ptolemaic Period.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Fayum (964 words)

	Research Article 2, Part 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Water was brought to the Giza Plateau from the Ancient Lake Moeris in the Faiyum.
		He was told by the priests the source of the water he saw surrounding the Pyramid was from the ancient lake Moeris and was brought to the pyramid by an artificial duct.
		The artificial duct from lake Moeris is not shown.
	thepump.org /art2earlystages2.html (646 words)

	Fayoum, Oasis of Peace
		The result of this and further developments by Amenemhet III (1842-1797 BC), who showed great interest in the area and built a pyramid at Hawara, was lake Moeris (Great Lake), twice the present size and teeming with fish, and an agricultural area to the south renowned for its rich and varied crops.
		The water level in Lake Qaroun had been falling for about 2,000 years, as it received less and less water until the construction of the Aswan High Dam led to greater stability in the level of the Nile.
		By the Middle Ages, the lake had become far too salty to sustain fresh-water fish and new species were introduced.
	www.fayoum.gov.eg /fayoum.htm (650 words)

	Memoirs of the Duke of Rovigo
		Those travellers must have been greatly mistaken who have pretended that this lake was formed as a reservoir for the overflowing waters of the Nile, which it afterwards discharged over the country during the drought.
		There is a small island, about the centre of the lake, upon which the inhabitants of the town of Faoue (the Arsinoe of antiquity) constructed their City of the.Dead, and erected a temple, which is still in existence.
		The poor, who neither possessed a tomb, nor the means of being embalmed, were no doubt carried to the border of the lake by their relatives, who placed on their tongues the piece of coin claimed by Charon as his due previously to burying them.
	www.wtj.com /archives/savary/sav010106.htm (2863 words)

	Herodotus on Moeris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Between the river and the lake he constructed a canal 80 stades in length and 300 feet in breadth.
		Through this canal, at times he admitted the water of the river, at other times he excluded it, thus providing the farmers with water at fitting times by opening the inlet and again closing it scientifically and at great expense.
		The lake has continued to serve the needs of the Egyptians down to our own days, and it has its name from its constructor, being still called the Lake of Moeris.
	nefertiti.iwebland.com /herodotus/moeris.htm (238 words)

	Herodotus & 12th Dynasty?
		The Delta was a marsh covered with water north of Lake Moeris (Faiyum).
		MOERIS ~ After Nitocris, the priests who conversed with Herodotus "related no achievement or deed of great note, save of Moeris, who was the last of them." Moeris is Greek for the Egyptian mer-wer that means Great Lake and is currently called Lake Birket Qarun within the Faiyum (she-resy, meaning southern lake).
		Another possible interpretation for identifying the name Moeris may be that it refers to multiple kings who reigned during the 12th dynasty in the Faiyum area.
	www.myegyptology.net /file/id50.htm (1516 words)

	faiyum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Faiyum, sixty kilometers southwest of Cairo, was fertile from the waters and silt from the Nile.
		A large saltwater lake (Lake Moeris) used to lay at the middle of the region until the Paleolithic period, at which time it shrunk into a much smaller, freshwater lake.
		The capital city of The Faiyum was called Krocodilopolis (built in the 12th dynasty and then restored by Ramses II in the 19th dynasty) because it was the sacred place of the crocodile God Sobek.
	www.uwm.edu /Course/egypt/0100/LOCATS/faiyum.htm (246 words)

	.:Egypt Melody: Holidays in Egypt Wadi El Hittan
		The lake covers about 78 mile² (200 km²) Differing from the typical oasis, whose fertility depends on water obtained from springs, the cultivated land in the Al Fayyum is formed of Nile mud brought down by the Bahr Yusuf.
		From this channel, 15 mile (24 km) in length from Lahun, at the entrance of the gap in the hills, to Medina, several canals branch off and by these the province is irrigated, the drainage water flowing into the Birket ci Kerun.
		Mounds north of the town mark the site of Arsinoe, known to the anceint Greeks as Crocodilopolis, where in ancient times the sacred crocodile kept in the Lake of Moeris was worshipped.
	www.egyptmelody.com /Wadi_El_Hittan.html (992 words)

	Detail Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Nile had formed Lake Moeris there in predynastic eras, and the Egyptians started building a retaining wall some 27 miles long, a construction which provided them with 27,000 acres of farmland.
		During the flood period, the Nile provided new water for the lake, and the water was carefully channeled into depressions that were dug from the soil by hand.
		It has been estimated that Lake Moeris doubled in size during inundations, and most of its water was directed into other depressions or into channels that led to a vast irrigation-ditch complex.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=EGY0021 (550 words)

	K.U.Leuven - Fayum Project
		It is almost certain that Herakleia was somewhere near the southern border of Lake Moeris, close to the meris of Herakleides and to Soknopaiou Nesos.
		As the lake has shrunk considerably over time, it may well have been on the southern shore of the lake in antiquity.
		In the Roman period most of this catoecic land is in the hands of priests from Soknopaiou Nesos.
	fayum.arts.kuleuven.be /0772.html (1598 words)

	The Pyriethum and the Suna Apis
		However, the Pyriethum of the Sky Lotus at Lake Moeris in Egypt was the “command control” center for the Giza Solar Table.
		The Greek geographer, Srtabo also visited the complex at Lake Moeris and was impressed by it’s complexity and enormity.
		In Erich von Daniken’s book “The Eyes of the Sphinx” he writes at length about the Lake Moeris complex, and the accounts of Herodotus, Strabo and other ancients concerning the complex are included in the pages of von Daniken’s book.
	www.spiritmythos.org /TM/solar-lunar/pyriethum.htm (741 words)

	Manenoworld.com
		The Nile is the longest river in the world, measuring 6,671 km (4,145 m) from its remotest headstream in Burundi to its mouth at the Mediterranean Sea.
		The Nile proper rises in Lake Victoria and flows north to the Mediterranean Sea.
		Speke, travelling on without Burton, sighted Lake Victoria on the same expedition and claimed that the lake was the primary source of the Nile.
	www.manenoworld.com /www/our_world.asp?detailid=13 (562 words)

	Research Article 3, Part 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		At this stage of construction water from the ancient lake Moeris has been brought to the building site through an "artificial duct." Herodotus was an eye witness to water on the Giza Plateau.
		The enclosure wall is the perimeter of a pond filled with water from lake Moeris.
		The artificial duct from the Ancient Lake Moeris is not shown.
	www.thepump.org /art3subcuttings.html (1580 words)

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