Harry Conover wrote:
Gary Coffman wrote in message . ..

The Egyptians didn't have garden hose. They dug trenches, filled them
with water, and measured off the water surface. For work too high above
ground level to conveniently reference off water in a surface trench, they
erected troughs or connected two basins with clay pipe.



That must have been a bit of a trick out in the middle of the desert!

Where did all that water originate?

Maybe denial isn't a river in Egypt, but Da Nile is.

Really, they had to have had water for the workers to drink anyway, so
they likely had enough extra around to set up a few bowl or trough levels.