In the Old Kingdom days of Egypt, the Nile flowed with much greater volume (it was during the Ice Age), so where today are found the ruins of Amarna (two hundred miles south of Cairo), the city of Amarna built by Akhenaten on a “desert bay” of the east side of the Nile, was during the Ice Age covered by the river swollen. Amarna lasted for less than a century, built circa 1350 b. c. the drying by the ending of the Ice Age continued contributing to the city’s quick demise.
