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Ancient Egypt was 180 and gets a bad rap for “no innovation”.

We got a lot from Egypt. Chemistry comes from kemet which ...
Fragrant red abode round eye
  01/04/23
alCHEMy
Peach double fault stage
  01/04/23
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Electric misanthropic friendly grandma death wish
  01/04/23
wat? ive never heard someone shit on Egyptian history
razzle silver station elastic band
  01/04/23
It's not exactly shitting on it to point out its quirks and ...
Peach double fault stage
  01/04/23
Yes! Which is what makes stuff so fascinating. Ramses ii wa...
Fragrant red abode round eye
  01/04/23
Their art barely changed for 3,000 years.
Peach double fault stage
  01/04/23
If you go closer and study it there’s different shit. ...
Fragrant red abode round eye
  01/04/23
Was there ever anything like an artistic "revolution?&q...
Peach double fault stage
  01/04/23
I like your poast. We ther we think similarly or you were in...
Fragrant red abode round eye
  01/04/23
Ok that sounds right. I need to go back and check on some of...
Peach double fault stage
  01/04/23
Yeah they had seals on the main entrance but robbers would j...
Fragrant red abode round eye
  01/04/23
Eventually they started entombing people in caves on the sid...
Peach double fault stage
  01/04/23
Eh yeah. I’ve been to valley of the kings. It’s ...
Fragrant red abode round eye
  01/04/23
All ancient scholars would try to spend time in Egypt and la...
Fragrant red abode round eye
  01/04/23
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razzle silver station elastic band
  01/04/23
Sample bias. Persian scholars seemed less enamored with Egyp...
Peach double fault stage
  01/04/23
No reason to think Persians we’re not also heavily inf...
Fragrant red abode round eye
  01/04/23
Persians were constantly updating their religious iconograph...
Peach double fault stage
  01/04/23
Egyptians went out, raided, and came back to Egypt to die be...
Fragrant red abode round eye
  01/04/23
They wouldn't have been able to build the pyramids without t...
coiffed shimmering trust fund nursing home
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Fragrant red abode round eye
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They didn't really develop any philosophy, unless you count ...
ruby curious house hominid
  01/04/23
If you are catholic there is an Egyptian connection.
Fragrant red abode round eye
  01/04/23
OT is not philosophy except for maybe Job.
ruby curious house hominid
  01/04/23
A small but financially significant group might disagree w y...
Fragrant red abode round eye
  01/04/23
I think most catholics get the basic distinction between phi...
ruby curious house hominid
  01/04/23
They were weak on a lot of scientific stuff too. Like anatom...
Peach double fault stage
  01/04/23
Actually and this might be of interest to you given your mon...
Fragrant red abode round eye
  01/04/23
Ok. But why were Greeks allowed to be doctors and nothing el...
Peach double fault stage
  01/04/23
Not sure.
Fragrant red abode round eye
  01/04/23
What do you guys think high, low, and mean IQ was in ancient...
cordovan roast beef lettuce
  01/04/23
Yeah Imhotep— that’s who you mean I think—...
Fragrant red abode round eye
  01/04/23
yeah plus they built these awesome pyramids
Histrionic sienna half-breed
  01/04/23
All the pyramids we're built during a really brief period of...
Peach double fault stage
  01/04/23
Yes. Old kingdom. Then they wised up and used secret valle...
Fragrant red abode round eye
  01/04/23
Crazy they were thousands of years old by the time of ancien...
glassy theatre incel
  01/04/23
dey got dat papyrus
Alcoholic box office jap
  01/04/23
I brought some papyrus art back from Egypt and hung it in my...
Fragrant red abode round eye
  01/04/23
its 180 as fuck love dat blue
Fragrant red abode round eye
  05/12/24
Why no pyramid scholarship itt? My theory is that Engineers ...
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Date: January 4th, 2023 6:07 PM
Author: Fragrant red abode round eye

We got a lot from Egypt.

Chemistry comes from kemet which was the old word for Egypt.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264939&forum_id=2Reputation#45742186)



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Date: January 4th, 2023 6:33 PM
Author: Peach double fault stage

alCHEMy

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Date: January 4th, 2023 6:41 PM
Author: Electric misanthropic friendly grandma death wish



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Date: January 4th, 2023 6:08 PM
Author: razzle silver station elastic band

wat? ive never heard someone shit on Egyptian history

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264939&forum_id=2Reputation#45742194)



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Date: January 4th, 2023 6:36 PM
Author: Peach double fault stage

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264939&forum_id=2Reputation#45742301)



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Date: January 4th, 2023 7:19 PM
Author: Fragrant red abode round eye

Yes! Which is what makes stuff so fascinating. Ramses ii was big on that.

His face is the only face you can still gaze on today that was mentioned in the Bible. He was the pharaoh of Moses (“born”) for reals.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264939&forum_id=2Reputation#45742535)



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Date: January 4th, 2023 6:10 PM
Author: Peach double fault stage

Their art barely changed for 3,000 years.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264939&forum_id=2Reputation#45742197)



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Date: January 4th, 2023 6:12 PM
Author: Fragrant red abode round eye

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264939&forum_id=2Reputation#45742210)



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Date: January 4th, 2023 6:27 PM
Author: Peach double fault stage

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264939&forum_id=2Reputation#45742260)



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Date: January 4th, 2023 6:34 PM
Author: Fragrant red abode round eye

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264939&forum_id=2Reputation#45742294)



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Date: January 4th, 2023 6:37 PM
Author: Peach double fault stage

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264939&forum_id=2Reputation#45742308)



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Date: January 4th, 2023 6:39 PM
Author: Fragrant red abode round eye

Yeah they had seals on the main entrance but robbers would just go around.

Also pyramids are a lesson in how our greatest plans fail. Beacon to robbers in later dynasties.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264939&forum_id=2Reputation#45742321)



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Date: January 4th, 2023 6:54 PM
Author: Peach double fault stage

Eventually they started entombing people in caves on the sides of steep cliffs so that anyone trying to rob them risked falling to their deaths.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264939&forum_id=2Reputation#45742391)



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Date: January 4th, 2023 6:55 PM
Author: Fragrant red abode round eye

Eh yeah. I’ve been to valley of the kings. It’s just a fucking rocky ass desert. Merchants and priests would try to emulate.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264939&forum_id=2Reputation#45742402)



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Date: January 4th, 2023 6:10 PM
Author: Fragrant red abode round eye

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264939&forum_id=2Reputation#45742198)



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Date: January 4th, 2023 6:10 PM
Author: razzle silver station elastic band



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Date: January 4th, 2023 6:30 PM
Author: Peach double fault stage

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264939&forum_id=2Reputation#45742279)



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Date: January 4th, 2023 6:38 PM
Author: Fragrant red abode round eye

No reason to think Persians we’re not also heavily influenced.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264939&forum_id=2Reputation#45742311)



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Date: January 4th, 2023 6:45 PM
Author: Peach double fault stage

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264939&forum_id=2Reputation#45742353)



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Date: January 4th, 2023 6:52 PM
Author: Fragrant red abode round eye

Egyptians went out, raided, and came back to Egypt to die because they couldn’t be resurrected unless they were buried on the West Bank properly.

Study their component divisions of the soul. Fascinating stuff.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264939&forum_id=2Reputation#45742379)



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Date: January 4th, 2023 6:29 PM
Author: coiffed shimmering trust fund nursing home

They wouldn't have been able to build the pyramids without the UFO technology the Reticulians gave them, meh.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264939&forum_id=2Reputation#45742271)



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Date: January 4th, 2023 6:35 PM
Author: Fragrant red abode round eye



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Date: January 4th, 2023 6:33 PM
Author: ruby curious house hominid

They didn't really develop any philosophy, unless you count hellenized hermeticism

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264939&forum_id=2Reputation#45742293)



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Date: January 4th, 2023 6:36 PM
Author: Fragrant red abode round eye

If you are catholic there is an Egyptian connection.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264939&forum_id=2Reputation#45742304)



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Date: January 4th, 2023 6:38 PM
Author: ruby curious house hominid

OT is not philosophy except for maybe Job.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264939&forum_id=2Reputation#45742312)



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Date: January 4th, 2023 6:43 PM
Author: Fragrant red abode round eye

A small but financially significant group might disagree w you for good reason but you won’t get it all.

Nice edit btw. Yes Job contains philosophy but so does the story of exodus.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264939&forum_id=2Reputation#45742339)



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Date: January 4th, 2023 6:45 PM
Author: ruby curious house hominid

I think most catholics get the basic distinction between philosophy and theology better than you, bro.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264939&forum_id=2Reputation#45742351)



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Date: January 4th, 2023 6:40 PM
Author: Peach double fault stage

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264939&forum_id=2Reputation#45742324)



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Date: January 4th, 2023 6:51 PM
Author: Fragrant red abode round eye

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?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264939&forum_id=2Reputation#45742372)



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Date: January 4th, 2023 6:56 PM
Author: Peach double fault stage

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264939&forum_id=2Reputation#45742407)



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Date: January 4th, 2023 6:58 PM
Author: Fragrant red abode round eye

Not sure.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264939&forum_id=2Reputation#45742416)



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Date: January 4th, 2023 6:42 PM
Author: cordovan roast beef lettuce

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264939&forum_id=2Reputation#45742336)



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Date: January 4th, 2023 7:12 PM
Author: Fragrant red abode round eye

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264939&forum_id=2Reputation#45742501)



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Date: January 4th, 2023 6:43 PM
Author: Histrionic sienna half-breed

yeah plus they built these awesome pyramids

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Date: January 4th, 2023 6:47 PM
Author: Peach double fault stage

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264939&forum_id=2Reputation#45742362)



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Date: January 4th, 2023 6:54 PM
Author: Fragrant red abode round eye

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.

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Date: January 4th, 2023 7:25 PM
Author: glassy theatre incel

Crazy they were thousands of years old by the time of ancient Rome

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Date: January 4th, 2023 7:28 PM
Author: Alcoholic box office jap

dey got dat papyrus

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Date: January 4th, 2023 7:55 PM
Author: Fragrant red abode round eye

I brought some papyrus art back from Egypt and hung it in my office

It’s better than paper frankly.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264939&forum_id=2Reputation#45742681)



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Date: May 12th, 2024 7:51 PM
Author: Fragrant red abode round eye

its 180 as fuck love dat blue

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Date: May 12th, 2024 8:32 PM
Author: Blathering set circlehead

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5264939&forum_id=2Reputation#47656700)