Date: January 4th, 2023 6:36 PM Author: wine plaza
It's not exactly shitting on it to point out its quirks and "flaws." They went through so many dynasties that inevitably there would be extended periods of chaos and decline in between periods of enlightenment and growth. They were also yugely propagandistic and less concerned with leaving accurate records of who did what. A lot of the time people were trying to take credit for shit that happened 1,000+ years ago, like chiseling their name on the statue of some long dead pharaoh from another dynasty.
Date: January 4th, 2023 6:12 PM Author: french vigorous hall cuck
If you go closer and study it there’s different shit. And the character of pharoahs visible in the subject matter. The spells didn’t change but the expression very very carefully did. Go deeper into the subject and you’ll see.
It’s an180 little hobby area of interest and it’s still accessible to regular dumbasses like me.
Date: January 4th, 2023 6:27 PM Author: wine plaza
Was there ever anything like an artistic "revolution?" I can't think of any other societies that made it more than a few centuries without someone breaking all the rules and doing something radically different. Even in medieval Europe you have artists trying to draw landscapes and castles and shit in the background when the only thing they were allowed to paint were pictures of Jesus and Mary.
Date: January 4th, 2023 6:34 PM Author: french vigorous hall cuck
I like your poast. We ther we think similarly or you were influenced by a previous “goofball” poast I add about background art.
To partly answer ur question, not really. The Middle Kingdom started showing book of dead materials in regular bros funeral sites because of grave robbing that occurred during the first intermediate period. Akhnaton changed things for awhile.
Date: January 4th, 2023 6:37 PM Author: wine plaza
Ok that sounds right. I need to go back and check on some of this. I do find it lulzy to observe the lengths they went through to discourage grave robbing.
Date: January 4th, 2023 6:10 PM Author: french vigorous hall cuck
All ancient scholars would try to spend time in Egypt and later Cairo.
Monotheism came from there. Breadbasket of the world thanks to the Nile. Anatomy from mummification process, mad skills with gold. You’d need a master now to make king tuts mask. Architectural innovation, art astronomy
Date: January 4th, 2023 6:30 PM Author: wine plaza
Sample bias. Persian scholars seemed less enamored with Egypt but they also didn't write anything down. Greeks and Romans left written works scattered everywhere so our understanding of ancient scholarship is tilted toward their obsessions.
Date: January 4th, 2023 6:45 PM Author: wine plaza
Persians were constantly updating their religious iconography to include references to some diety worshipped by some random minority they were trying to appease. They didn't seem wedded too hard on any one understanding of the cosmos. They also had an odd (but admirable) obsession with being truthful. They thought the worst thing you could do was tell a lie.
Date: January 4th, 2023 6:40 PM Author: wine plaza
They were weak on a lot of scientific stuff too. Like anatomy - when an Egyptian dood died the first thing they did was tear out all his organs and prep the body for mummification, so they didn't have cadaver labs or anything like that. This could partly explain why they imported so many doctors from Greece.
Date: January 4th, 2023 6:51 PM Author: french vigorous hall cuck
Actually and this might be of interest to you given your moniker, not really. The Egyptians were the first to identify a lot of organs and Greeks relied upon and studied in Egypt first. Greek docs studied in Egypt. Sure the Egyptians made mistakes, didn’t recognize gallbladder for example, but they led the way very early on.
The Greco Roman thing being better than Egypt needs significant reappraisal in the common cognomen. The Egyptians had it going on for a long fucking time. Look into it. Think about it. 3000 years. Magic. Spells. Secrets. You think those priests did nothing between putting makeup on their god idols every day and gathering supplications?
Date: January 4th, 2023 6:56 PM Author: wine plaza
Ok. But why were Greeks allowed to be doctors and nothing else? Persians also allowed Greek doctors to settle in Anatolia but didn't want other Greeks moving there and doing Greek stuff.
Date: January 4th, 2023 6:42 PM Author: Gold Corn Cake
What do you guys think high, low, and mean IQ was in ancient Egypt? Some of those architect/builder bros must be pushing 140 to make that stuff with no construction equipment and hardly any hand tools.
Date: January 4th, 2023 7:12 PM Author: french vigorous hall cuck
Yeah Imhotep— that’s who you mean I think—was an absolute once every 500 years type genius.
I think during the time of Ramses the Great the country bumpkins were at 85 90 and the priests were at about 115. Some members of the pharaohs counsel would have been geniuses here and there, one or two per generation. Basically same as today. Which says a lot.
Date: January 4th, 2023 6:47 PM Author: wine plaza
All the pyramids we're built during a really brief period of a few decades, really early in Egypt's history. When Herodotus went to Egypt, the pyramids were older to ancient Greeks than ancient Greece is to us.
Date: January 4th, 2023 6:54 PM Author: french vigorous hall cuck
Yes. Old kingdom. Then they wised up and used secret valley of the kings so shit wouldn’t get robbed after a pharaoh ruled too long and weakened the empire.
Edit: check out the Nubians. They had pyramids and copied old kingdom hard.
Date: May 12th, 2024 8:32 PM Author: Slate stirring trailer park weed whacker
Why no pyramid scholarship itt? My theory is that Engineers could figure out how to build pyramids if they had to, and the only reason we don’t know how to build them is because nobody cares to look into it except for liberal artists.