yeah, I thought the picture was ridiculous, why show her as an old person rather than in the prime of her life? But I guess (after reading the article) that that’s what skeletal info they had.

When 800 years old you reach, look as good as her you will not!

She looks fantastic for being 800 years old

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I’ve read that there is 6 shared powers between the United States federal government, and state governments but couldn’t find what the 6 are! Anyone have any ideas?

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Following the fall of (Western) Rome, the economy cratered and the money that went into maintaining the academies where copies of written works were made disappeared. Books do not last forever, and in those days they had to be copied by hand, an expensive and time-consuming enterprise. The people who were literate in those days were Christian scholars who didn't have much interest in preserving historical and scientific tracts.

It doesn’t help that there are many movies and tv shows relating to ancient Egypt like the mummy movies, yugioh and moon knight

You're honestly better off Googling it, sorry. I read this in bits and pieces ages ago and don't remember where.

That is the sort of question any decent historian or archeologist ponder.

But I'll also say that it is more in popular science that Egypt is the greatest civilization of all time. That goes back to when the ancient Egyptian culture was rediscovered. It was the first to be studied scholarly to any degree which is why Egyptology was an entire field of study, but not Indus-Valley-Civilizationology

There are only a finite amount of routes any large group of men can take. Mountains? They'll take the pass. Rivers? They'd take the crossings. Swamps? They'd go around. Forests? They'd go around (if possible) or take the few roads available. And so on. Then, it becomes a case of scouting those limited options.

Could this maybe imply that other ancient civilizations were as advanced as Ancient Egypt, but we just give more credit to Egypt because it was so much better preserved?

What was your point then?

Also just because MDs and JDs are not PhDs, does not remove both medicine and law from the metaphysics (philosophy) umbrella. In fact you can get a PhD in both those disciplines.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GCzqhWGJ1RU

Yeah I didn't see any references or allusions to Christianity either. Idk what that person was talking about

The end of the Hellenistic age and the beginning of the Roman. Cleopatra was not only Egyptian but descended from the Ptolemy who served Alexander the Great himself. Gets forgotten, that Macedonian Greek heritage in Egypt from 300 BC to when Cleopatra killed herself

The one thing they don’t teach about in history class

History was what we consider Classics today: Herodotus, Homer, Thucydides, Livy, Plutarch. Up until well into the 20th century, the works of Plutarch were probably the most read history in the West. They're essentially mini-bios of famous leaders and generals of antiquity, with an emphasis on their moral character.

These bios were instructive to Western elites, who were encouraged to champion the values demonstrated by Plutarch's nobler subjects - courage, loyalty, civic-mindedness. If you were an educated man in the 19th and early 20th century, you were expected to be able to talk about Pericles, Alcibiades, Caesar, etc.

Instead of being a Roman settlement, Egypt was largely left alone for a while under the Ptolymies. They already had agriculture (which was very different than the rest of the Roman world), language, a system of government, and economy that worked. No need for the Romans to come in and establish things that were already there.

That changed after Cleopatra backed Mark Antony in the civil war, and lost. Octavian made Egypt a province to be governed through Rome, rather than an independent state.

The whole blog is about a 30 min read, well worth the time.

I've read his whole blog. Its excellent.

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Point number 1 is very interesting.

Egypt is the only place in the Roman Empire with a "full" urban infrastructure (with a large and culturally complex population centers) "in" the fully arid desert (the only greenery was provided by irrigation, both natural (annual floods) or artificial), which allowed commoner's trash to be preserved for archeologists in a way that couldn't manage elsewhere. Thus we got insights into the day to day life of a commoner in Roman Egypt in a way that we have never gotten anywhere else in the empire.

Where does it do that? I didn't notice anything like that, other than a fairly sober and normal discussion of Egyptian-Roman religious syncretism

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