Scale of the Nile

The costructio of the ile scale o Al-Rawdah Islad is part of the Egyptias’ keeess to follow up ad measure the level of the ile over the ages. Accordig to the foudig text of the scale, it is clear that it was established i 248 AH / 862 CE durig the reig of the Caliph al-Mutawakil i the Abbasid period by Ahmed ib Muhammad, the costructio egieer. He uderwet several restoratio works i the Tuluid, Fatimid, Mamluk ad Ottoma periods. The scale is a well drilled i the groud from two levels, ad aroud its walls a spiral staircase is looped aroud the ceter. The well is coected to the river through three opeigs at differet levels. The scale cotiued to fuctio util shortly before the costructio of the High Dam, which had seized the flood from Egyptia territory.

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