They Dug 170 Feet for Water... and Hit Nothing #shorts

The village that built the pharaohs' tombs had no well, so its water came up by donkey. When the villagers dug their own, they went about 170 feet (52 meters) down and never hit water - and the empty hole became the rubbish pit that preserved their written records. (Source: A. G. McDowell, Village Life in Ancient Egypt, as summarised on Wikipedia; Papyrus Stories, "A Donkey Called Rameses".) Full video on the channel: how the tomb-builders of Deir el-Medina survived an Egyptian summer without AC.

Illustrations are AI-assisted; narration is a synthetic voice.

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