Cairo - Nilometer
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The description of the Nilometer by the Greek geographer Strabo (ca. 63 B.C.-A.D. 20) is still accurate:
"The Nilometer is well built of regular hewn stone on the bank of the Nile, in which is recorded the rise of the stream: not only the highest and the lowest rises but also those in between, for the water in the well rises and falls with the stream.
"The Nilometer is well built of regular hewn stone on the bank of the Nile, in which is recorded the rise of the stream: not only the highest and the lowest rises but also those in between, for the water in the well rises and falls with the stream.
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At the southern tip of Roda is the Nilometer, constructed about 715 to measure the water level of the Nile and much restored in later centuries; although it has now lost its original function it is still of great historical interest.
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