ANCIENT EGYPT
luka
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he has a moment with an egyptian artifact in the biritish museum
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
The funny thing about the pyramids is that nearly all of them are completely shit. The only good ones are the very earliest ones from the 3rd and 4th Dynasties, but they carried on building them throughout the Old and Middle Kingdoms, and the quality rapidly went down the toilet. Some of them today are so badly eroded you need an expert eye to distinguish them from a small natural hill: 
While others have more or less vanished entirely.
While others have more or less vanished entirely.
pattycakes_
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ver$hy ver$h
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Murphy
cat malogen
Burroughs goes through the theme of Western Lands so often you wonder if the mobility of sea travel is missed by prehistorians
If you have an almost infinite number of Neolithic burial grounds to the northwest across Spain, Brittany, British Isles, even southern Scandinavia, you have to question if Egyptian mariners could have heard of such places and what idea exchanges may have taken place in developing worldviews. Early Anatolian farmers, specialists in monumental architecture, populated many of these Mediterranean areas and beyond from 7000BC onwards, eg much later on you find Otzi in the Alps had mostly early Anatolian farmer ancestry
Conclusion - its not west as a simple metaphor for death/setting sun - people were interconnected, the sea was key and genetic analysis shows as much. Egypt didn’t get smashed by Bonze Age steppe-herders either, hence far more continuation as consolidation through, say, 2900BC (middle to late Neo in northwestern Europe) to upper/lower kingdoms merging, to the capital moving and a brief dalliance with solar semi-monotheism, back to polytheism all the way through to the final Greek schism and Ptolemy’s final inheritors
We don’t get the personal or locational names of anyone or anywhere from Northern Europe until Greek and east Mediterranean geographers and historians started to plot linguistic lineages for maritime exploration. Think there’s one mention of a temple to Apollo interpreted as Stonehenge but it could just as easily have been Avebury, Newgrange, Orkney or a place lost to time. Point is, no names! Nothing, nada, zilch until about 800BC. Maybe a few gods and goddesses tally long-term through PIE, eg Lugh/Lug, rivers with Don/Danu but compared to Egypt? A linguistic-rich tapestry but only because they recorded it. Keep in mind, if you knew the name of a deity or a specific rite, you could potentially destroy it. Religion, book-keeping of rites and scribes all carried risks
Yeah got a bit lost there
ver$hy ver$h
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Ishmael Reed pulls from ancient Egypt in Mumbo Jumbo. He comes up with this alternate history drawing on Set and Osiris and a reinterpretation of some of the Christian myths.
