How much rain does Egypt have each year?

Answer 1

Rain was Rain certainly known in Lower Egypt in the Pyramid times, though there is but one evidence of it in the monuments ; the water-spout carved in stone, leading from the roof of one of the tombs of the fifth dynasty at Gizeh, is a proof that such a feature was known, and perhaps in common use on the mud-brick houses. Nevertheless, the rain can hardly have been much commoner then than now, or more signs of its action on the tombs would remain. In Greek times the rain appears to have been just as rare as it is now, or even rarer, in Upper Egypt. Herodotus says that the last that fell at Thebes was two centuries before his time, under Psamtik, and then only in drops. Now, last year, Mr Tristram Ellis, while at Negadeh, just below Thebes, expected rain one day, but he was told that none had been seen there for 45 years. So there does not appear to have been appreciable climatic change in the Thebaid during the last two thousand years. The pits in the Tombs of the Kings, sometimes supposed to have been intended to arrest any storm-flooding, may as likely have been to arrest or hinder intruders; or may be sepulchral pits abandoned, owing to the changes and amplifications of the plans. Again, it may be observed that neither rain, nor any sign of rain, is shown in the paintings of the tombs; no wide hats, no umbrellas, no dripping cattle, are ever represented. Mud-brick tombs, covered with stucco, still remain from the third or fourth dynasty, when they were built without any apparent fear of their dissolution. On the whole, the rain -fall does not appear to have perceptibly changed during historic times. Source: http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/geography/weather.htm. by W.M. Flinders Petrie

Answer 2

this is a pretty hard question, well there is not so much water there so when water evaprates it doesent happen a lot of times but is well when the water evaporates and want to go down again its burns by the heat.

Answer 3

Egypt didn't need much rain. It had the Nile River to irrigate the land for them.

Answer 4

There is very little rain in Egypt. Egypt only gets 2-5 millimeters of rain per year, which may occur in intervals over many years.

Answer 5

1999

Answer 6

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