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> He had heard that in the nearby town of Syene midday sunlight shines straight down to the bottom of deep wells “Nearby” is an interesting descriptor for a to
by DoughnutHole 3y ago
> He had heard that in the nearby town of Syene midday sunlight shines straight down to the bottom of deep wells
“Nearby” is an interesting descriptor for a town 515 miles away.
Syene was basically the town furthest up the Nile in Egypt. You literally couldn’t get any further from Alexandria and still consider it Egypt.