Ancient Egypt Breakout

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5 Digit Directional Lock

Use the text below and map above to solve the directional puzzle.

The land of Egypt was blessed with the Nile River, and everything near this river was fruitful. Egypt was truly called "the gift of the Nile", and without this magnificent river everything around would be a desert, much like the Arabian Desert, near the camel image. In Egypt the desert is everywhere, but along both sides of the Nile River is black mud which created lush farmland, like in Herakleopolis. The great mountains of Africa carry rich soil into Egypt via the Nile River. Nearly every year the Nile River would overflow its banks, when the snow on the mountains had melted. This would cause the soil near the banks of the Nile to be very rich and fertile, especially in Memphis and this is the reason why Egypt was called "the gift of the Nile". The Nile River is the longest river in the entire world, flowing over 4000 miles from its origin down in Central Africa and dumping into the Mediterranean Sea. In fact the river flows from south to north which is very unusual for a river and why Lower Egypt is called Upper Egypt and Upper Egypt is called Lower Egypt. The Nile River is between 2 miles and 30 miles wide depending on where you are along the river. If one were to park along the bank of the river and walk on shore near Rameses Zoan, there would be lush dark soil or "black mud" for a period of time, and suddenly it would become dry sandy desert colored red. In the ancient world when people noticed this dark line running down the landscape, they describe it as looking like a thread, and the Egyptians referred to it as "Redland Blackland."

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