What is it? #487

[LilMissPurrfect]

I'm intrigued. Dusty, musty, mouldy or stagnant?

Difficult to describe......bit of stale air

 

[squirt]

Nothing to do with ships. Naming the country would be a good start to getting the answer.

I think the country is Tunisia

 

[Bamber]

I think the country is Tunisia

Wrong end of the Mediterranean.

 

[squirt]

Syria?

 

[Pprey]

Water clock in Lebanon?

 

[Bamber]

Both too far east: stay in Africa.

 

[Pprey]

Egypt?

 

[Bamber]

Egypt?

Yes!
Now, why was Egypt the breadbasket of the Roman Empire?

 

[Pprey]

The nile.

 

[Bamber]

Yes, The Nile.

Now why would almost 2 dozen of these structures, with their calibrated pillars, be built along The Nile?

 

[squirt]

temples to Isis?

 

[Pprey]

Government mistakes. With all the clues, give yourself a trophy for defeating us.

 

[Bamber]

Not temples. They have a practical use.

 

[Pprey]

I gave in and used google. Well done, that was not easy.

 

[squirt]

did you come up with nilometer too? lol

 

[Bamber]

did you come up with nilometer too? lol View attachment 37591

It's my bed time. I was about to tell you.

YES, they are called Nilometers, and were used to measure the water level from the annual inundation of the Nile valley. From this a good estimation could be made of the amount of grain which would be grown that year. This calculation would in turn be used to set the taxes for that year. So they were actually taxation calculators.

 

[squirt]

gonna have to share it with Pprey ... we worked hard on this one lol

 

[Pprey]

A gold trophy for Bamber, without all the clues I would have guessed they were in mexico.

 

[squirt]

will a medal do? lol

 

[Bamber]

Thank you. Koni will be jealous.