Merer's diary describes moving stones to a pyramid building site by boat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diary_of_Merer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diary_of_M

Merer's diary describes moving stones to a pyramid building site by boat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diary_of_Merer 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-discovering-eye-witness-accounts-of-a-legendary-construction-project/ 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 https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01379-7