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Posted on 08/28/2010 4:55:35 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Could also be the world’s first image of an erect penis, showing that the patriarchy has always been around, creating a hostile environment. /s
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funny story.
current archaeology suggests that the sahara desert was well watered savannah until about 5000 years ago when the rains stopped abruptly
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/abrupt-climate-change/End%20of%20the%20African%20Humid%20Period
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“distance was not a problem” Stephen Lekson
2017:
A joint Yale and Royal Museums of Art and History (Brussels) expedition to explore the the ancient Egyptian city of Elkab has uncovered some previously unknown rock inscriptions, which include the earliest monumental hieroglyphs dating back around 5,200 years.
These new inscriptions were not previously recorded by any expedition and are of great significance in the history of the ancient Egyptian writing systems, according to Egyptologist John Coleman Darnell, professor in Yale's Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale, who co-directs the Elkab Desert Survey Project.
“This newly discovered rock art site of El-Khawy preserves some of the earliest — and largest — signs from the formative stages of the hieroglyphic script and provides evidence for how the ancient Egyptians invented their unique writing system,” says Darnell.
The newly discovered panel of signs features images of a bull’s head on a short pole followed by two back-to-back saddlebill storks with a bald ibis bird above and between them. This arrangement of symbols is common in later Egyptian representations of the solar cycle and with the concept of luminosity.
Recent finds suggest that the ancient “lost army of Cambyses” has been found. 50,000 went in and none returned, eh”
https://www.seeker.com/the-quest-for-cambyses-lost-army-1764732816.html
Heh, that’s from 2009, FR has more recent stuff than that. :^)
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/lostarmy/index
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