Ancient branches of the Nile[edit]
Ancient Nile delta.
The Nile delta at the time of Herodotus, according to James Rennell (1800)
Records from ancient times (such as by Pliny the Elder) show that the delta had seven distributaries (from east to west):
the Pelusiac,
the Tanitic,
the Mendesian,
the Phatnitic (or Phatmetic),[1]
the Sebennytic,
the Bolbitine, and
the Canopic (also called the Herakleotic[2] and the Agathodaemon[4])