#65279;Prehistory: Egypt When Noah's descendants entered Egypt, roughly 200 years had passed since the Great Flood. The date was c. 2400 BC. While Europe was going through the post-flood Ice Age, most of Africa, lying as it was closer to the equator, was saved from the harshness of the climate in Europe. Nevertheless, the climate of Egypt was different from that of today in that it was more humid. Great lakes -- established, no doubt by the residual water of the Great Flood --covered the depressions of Africa. In Egypt, in what is now called the Western Desert, there were lakes, some of them very large, but as they were dependant upon rainfall for their existence, they slowly shrunk as the climate changed from one of relative high humidity, to the very dry climate now found there. Meanwhile, the Nile, made up of various rivers in the torrential regions of the south, eventually formed one stream that cut its way across the newly laid sediment until it flowed into the Mediteranean. The Nile river was bigger and rougher in its early stage, and contained a muddy sediment that cut through any rock in its path by way of a process called corrasion. Meandering where the gradient was slight and rushing headlong where the gradient was significant, it cut its way down into the bottom of what is now the Nile Valley, leaving terraces in its path; sometimes flooding, sometimes subsiding, until it reached a point where it actually began to build its way back up due to the deposition of sediment. People entering Egypt saw a smaller Delta region than it is today; it was swampy and full of dangerous animals. Also, it was no doubt dangerous to build permanent settlements right along the river as it was wilder back then and unpredictable. It seems from the evidence that people first opted to settle on the plateau above the river, in the region of the lakes. This region supported a larger variety of flora and fauna than does the present desert. As mentioned above, the river cut terraces as it formed the Nile Valley. The first five terraces show no signs of man's existence. Therefore these were cut between the time of the flood and the time of man's entrance into the Nile Valley. That means 5 terraces in perhaps as many as 200 years. The next terrace and the several terraces below it, contain stone tools; then we meet with sediment that has built up over the years. Remember that the Nile, in its earliest phase, cut its course then at some point a more stable bed was reached and the river henceforth overflowed its banks, depositing soil and thus raising itself again. Consequently, it is conjectured that this sediment contains Late Paleolithic remains. The latter term, of course, has very little meaning with regard to the Biblical time-scale allowed; Late Paleolithic is, at most, an assemblage of a certain quality of stone artifacts, not necessarily and most certainly not a time indicator of a greatly distant age. My guess is that the sediiment of the Delta and the Nile contains the remains of the earliest farmers {Neolithics]. I know my need for Christ