Histories

From this river (it is said) the king of the Arabians brought water by an aqueduct made of sewn oxhides and other hides and extensive enough to reach to the dry country; and he had great tanks dug in that country to try to receive and keep the water.

It is a twelve days' journey from the river to that desert. By three aqueducts (they say) he brought the water to three different places.

Psammenitus, son of Amasis, was encamped by the mouth of the Nahr an- Nil [31.1,30.166] (river), AfricaNile called Pelusian, awaiting Cambyses.

For when Cambyses marched against Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt, he found Amasis no longer alive; he had died after reigning forty-four years, during which he had suffered no great misfortune; and being dead he was embalmed and laid in the burial-place built for him in the temple.

While his son Psammenitus was king of Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt, the people saw an extraordinary thing, namely, rain at Thebes [32.666,25.683] (deserted settlement), Qina, Upper Egypt, Egypt, AfricaThebes of Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt, where, as the Thebans themselves say, there had never been rain before, nor since to my lifetime; for indeed there is no rain at all in the upper parts of Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt; but at that time a drizzle of rain fell at Thebes [32.666,25.683] (deserted settlement), Qina, Upper Egypt, Egypt, AfricaThebes .[*](In modern times there is sometimes a little rain at Thebes [32.666,25.683] (deserted settlement), Qina, Upper Egypt, Egypt, AfricaThebes ( +Luxor [32.65,25.683] (inhabited place), Qina, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Africa Luxor); very little and very seldom.)