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-Detailed view of the density of canals and rivers between the Damietta branch and the lake Manzaleh (image by D. D'Erasmo).
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The Carte topographique de l'Égypte, published in 1828 by the French engineer Pierre Jacotin, has always been considered a significant means for the reconstruction of the ancient Egyptian landscape. This cartographic series can be used as an informative bridge linking the present and the past, in the effort to understand the many changes that have...
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... rivers, canals, dams, and aqueducts represented in the Napoleonic cartography were vectorised using (poly)line geometry. The vectorisation methodology was rather simple for all rivers, streams and canals of the area south of Cairo, consisting in parallel lines directly connected to the main course of the Nile, and forming a comb-shape ( fig. 4). This pattern becomes much more complex in the region of the Delta. A clear example of this complexity is represented by the area between the branches of Damietta and Rosetta ( fig. 4), where a conspicuous number of water streams mark their course towards the northern Delta, branching-off and connecting between them. This tangled ...
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... rivers, streams and canals of the area south of Cairo, consisting in parallel lines directly connected to the main course of the Nile, and forming a comb-shape ( fig. 4). This pattern becomes much more complex in the region of the Delta. A clear example of this complexity is represented by the area between the branches of Damietta and Rosetta ( fig. 4), where a conspicuous number of water streams mark their course towards the northern Delta, branching-off and connecting between them. This tangled network of waterways is much more difficult to extricate and required a longer time of ...
