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Syene

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Syene: see Aswan Aswan or Assuan , city (1986 pop. 190,579), capital of Aswan governorate, S Egypt, on the Nile River at the First Cataract. It is one of the driest cities in the world.
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47) Concluding positively, he draws attention to the fact that the priests of Syene do exactly this with the letters of the river Nile: .
Eratosthenes happened to read in an astronomical journal that on June 21 at noon in the city of Syene shadows disappeared; the sun, thus, was directly overhead.
 
 
 
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