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Egypt 2500 B.C.

Egypt's pyramid-temples, which have withstood thousands of years of time, attest to the skill of the ancient construction workers. The earliest pyramids were built from 2660-2500B.C. By 2500 B.C. the Egyptians were pretty adept with drainage construction, accentuated by the significance that water played in their priestly rituals of purification and those affecting the burial of the kings. According to their religion, to die was simply to pass from one state of life to another. If the living required food, clothing and other necessities, then so did the dead.

Found within a pyramid temple built by King Tutankhamen's father-in-law at Abusir was a brass drain pipe running from the upper temple along the connecting masonry causeway to the outer temple on the river.

Excavators have discovered a tomb that supposedly contains the body of Osiris before he became a god. It contains the dividing line between Life and Death, i.e., a deep moat containing water that surrounds all sides of the figure of the god on his throne. After 5,000 years, water still fills the canal through underground pipes from the River Nile.