| Back to Table of Contents Dionysius Periegetes (3th century) Periegese, or travel around the world. ------------------------------------------------- Taken from: Youssouf Kamal: Monumenta Cartographica Africae et Aegypti Where does the Nile come from? The Nile comes from the Mountains of the Moon. He has been called very fad because the Nile makes Egypt more fad as where Libya is dry. But Ptolemy totally opposite of this says, he comes from the south from the Moon Mountains and splits in Astapus and Astaborus who go both sites of Meroe. |
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