Egyptians were mostly defeated by other Egyptians, who sure af recorded their wins ;)

On the contrary, there are hieroglyphic texts that are probably forgeries. A granite bowl of Horemheb published by Donald Redford is now thought to be a forgery, and the inscribed statue of Tetisheri in the British Museum is generally believed to be a forgery as well.

Most forgeries are a pastiche of genuine inscriptions, which can make them difficult to detect at first glance.

There is an Egyptian Steele that says that the [name of what the Egyptians called the Jewish tribes] have fled from the pharaoh, sorry I can’t give more details it was mentioned in a history of the Jewish people vid I was watching on YouTube

I listened to a lecture once where the professor said that the Egyptians didn’t record their losses. You knew that a war was going badly when the recorded victories were becoming closer and closer to the capital.

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A very interesting article. The story of the Mesha Stele is superb!

I study Chinese bronze and turtle inscriptions, from eras around and before this, so I appreciate the importance of good copies, down to a dot.

Would Egyptians keep records if such an embarrassing defeat, though?

Were all Egyptians losses kept on record?

It's harder when the golden tablets are invisible

The Jewish people weren’t great at keeping records… so a whole lot of their biblical history is historically hard to back up. For example, there’s no evidence of the Jewish flight from Egypt or there being a Hebrew slave population. The Egyptians were very good record keepers.

Is king David generally thought of as not being a historical figure? Or is the only current source about King David the bible which casts doubt on the historicity of his existence?

Thank you.

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Probably unlikely but has anyone here read anything on japanese nationalism after WW2? In the last week i read three tigers one mountain which had a large section on the attitude towards Koreans in Japan which will be useful for my dissertation.

Langlois has a youtube channel, with a couple of reallyinteresting talks in which the techniques he uses are explained (it's in french, but you could use the subtitles plus automatic translation).

Langlois has a youtube channel, with a couple of really interesting talks in which the techniques he uses are explained (it's in french, but you could use the subtitles plus automatic translation).

Thanks haha

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No, there is no question about the legitimacy of those.

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