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 ** = periods of famine & political upheaval
 ** most important example = end of Old Kingdom and into the Middle Kingdom
-* underground water
+* Fayoum Oasis & Lake Moeris
-** acquifier
+** a basin in the desert to the west of the Nile in the upper part of Upper Egypt
-** clay, sand, and porous rock base = large underground water flows
+** Nile floods fed the lake over time
+*** fed by the Nile and eventually connected to the Nile by Middle Kingdom pharaohs who improved irrigation in response to low flooding
+*** Middle Kingdom c. 2300 BC the lake was widened and the canal connecting it to the Nile deepened
+*** the lake served as reservoir for dry periods
+** Egypt's most important oasis
+** principal Neolithic site (early agriculture)
+*** has archeological evidence of earliest farming in Egypt
+** site of the city Crocodilopolis (Greek name) or "Faiyum" (Arabic name)
 ** oases and water sources plenty by digging wells in lowlands alongside the Nile
-** most important oasis = Fayoum Oasis, which was fed by the Nile and eventually connected to the Nile by Middle Kingdom pharaohs who improved irrigation in response to low flooding
 *** see [http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/fayoumhistory.htm by The History of the Fayoum Oasis] by Jimmy Dunn, TourEgypt.net
 * Aswan Dam