Cosmological conceptions that transformed the Nile Delta. A hydrological approach from pre-dynastic

The Nile Delta, a natural landform in its destruction phase, was born about 7500 years ago. Since then, Egyptians, Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, etc., have transformed it into a man-altered coastal plain replete with barrages, dykes, canals, dams, growing population, and urbanism. Different cosmologies with different—conscious and unconscious—ecological, po-litical or economic agendas, have transformed the Nile Delta from a natural landscape to a very rationalised one. In this paper, a cosmologically oriented Geographic Information System (GIS) is presented, focusing on tangible cultural features related to specific ways of understanding the world by the dominant culture. This GIS constitutes the analytical framework to create an approximative animated model to represent the ancient annual flood and its potential impact on urbanism; hydraulics modelling will be used to estimate water levels and flood extents for rivers and watercourses.
Israel Hinojosa-Balino

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