Yup! The modern city of Rosetta was built atop the ruins of the ancient city of Bolbitine, and it is this city (in both cases) which gives the branch of the NIle its name. The French discovered the Rosetta Stone in a wall of a fort they occupied just outside the city when they invaded the Ottomans in 1799.
You raise a very good point, it's surely no coincidence that it was the very branch by which souls (symbolically) return that coughed up some of the very tools which made it possible...
I wonder how much longer that branch will remain open (either to water or to souls). I imagine the rising sea level and continued desertification of northern Africa will do the Nile Delta no favors.
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Date: 2024-09-07 08:38 pm (UTC)You raise a very good point, it's surely no coincidence that it was the very branch by which souls (symbolically) return that coughed up some of the very tools which made it possible...
I wonder how much longer that branch will remain open (either to water or to souls). I imagine the rising sea level and continued desertification of northern Africa will do the Nile Delta no favors.