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I read somewhere that a great drought in 22nd century BCE prevented the Nile from flooding for several years. The Egyptian Old Kingdom collapsed soon afterward. Do we have any primary sources that described how catastrophic this event was?

by /u/Steinger in /r/AskHistorians

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