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M.B was interested in the role played by the Nile in / ancient times. When he was stumbled upon the strange truth about Parremess. He was trying to trace the lost river beds and waterways of Nile in order to map out what the delta would have looked like, at the time of the pharaohs.
Today there are only two branchs of the Nile in the delta. But we know that in the past , the river branches have switched course in many times Through history the Nile would have had different branches all across the delta. Branches that have long ago dried out and disappeared. The reason for this is that each branch of the Nile in the delta carry so much silt from up-stream. That its river bed keeps building up until the water can no longer flow through it. At that moment, the river branch will switch / course finding a new route down to the sea and carving out a new path sometimes far away from the old river bed.
The only way to trace these acient waterways is to study a contour map. All lost rivers leave tail-tail signs in the contour lines on maps. Signs that an expert can trace to find the ancient path of the old dried out river.

By studying these contour lines ,B finaly came up with the single map charting every ancient silted-up branch and waterway of Nile through the easten delta. There were many lost channels, and each have been active at some time in the past 5,000 years.

"all these reconstruction maps , with the help of the study of the contours of the delta landscape. I was able to reconstruct the variety of Nile branches integrity"

This one map held the truth about Parremess. Because it would reveal where the city should lie. The ancient texts said it lay on the delta's easten most branch.So all B had to do is to work out which was the easten most branch of the Nile at the time of Remmesses the great. To do that he had to date all the ancient branches and he did that with pottery.

In Egypt cities and settlements were built along active branches of the Nile which supply them with drinking water , sanitation and transport. Like all ancient settlements Parremess's busy streets and markets would have left behind tons of rubbish above all potterry.