Posted on 04/20/2014 8:27:09 AM PDT by chessplayer
1. Cleopatra lived closer in time to the moon landing than the construction of the pyramids.
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The only ones which surprised me were how long ago the fax machine was invented (early telegraph years rather than after the phone) and that mammoths weren’t extinct when the pyramids were built.
Like Sam Johnson said about a dog walking on its hind legs . . . . :-)
I wasn't alive in 1955 but my father was having eggs and bacon at the first Waffle House in Georgia while he was on leave from the Navy.
I saw a documentary once, where three archeologists tried to erect a simple obelisk. they used contemporary technology at the time and failed, then started using pulleys to simulate a mass slave labor force. It still failed. Finally they gave up and said there must be some other explanation.
“Teaching had already begun at Oxford as early as 1096. By 1249, the University of Oxford had grown into a full-fledged university, complete with student housing at the school’s three original halls of residence. The Aztec civilization as we know it began with the founding of Tenochtitlan in 1325.”
And you wont believe how many history docs or lectures you can find where Europe is always painted as barbaric at the time, while Mesoamerica is supposed to have been this place where we are just too dumb to see their obviously more advanced culture.
The only method I've read about that makes sense is espoused by Joseph Davidovits and the Geopolymer Institute.
So did Noah have wooly mammoths on the ark?
(Why do these sites put every item on a separate page? It is very annoying.)
The Ptolemies married each other for generations, on a par with the Spanish Hapsburgs.
I had a friend in college that his Father was a WWII veteran, his Grandfather a Civil War veteran, and his Great Grandfather a veteran of the Revolutionary War.
There were about 14 or so Cleopatras, which one are they talking about? :)
I know I know, only the famous one which was the 7th or 8th I think.
10 pages to get all 10.
It’s a trap, everyone.
These headlines always seem interesting, but I don’t bother anymore. There are so many ads and pop-ups tied to each page it causes my computer to run like crap. It’s not about the story - it’s all about the ad revenue generated. I feel used each time I patiently click through the slideshow.
One reason only: to garner as many hits as possible. SUCKS!
A distinction without great difference. In ancient Egypt, everybody was by definition a slave of the God-King. Same was true of most eastern monarchies.
Some slaves were, of course, treated much better than other slaves.
Stop whining everybody. This is how websites get their revenue - so they don't have to charge us for the content.
That one's pretty cool.
What amazes me is that people had sex - even way back then.
Worse. Habsburgs married cousins. Ptolemies married siblings, parents, etc.
Probably lots more Sammy.
No TV back then.
And those papyrus scrolls were a birch to read in bed.
Exhibit A: Charles II of Spain ("the Bewitched"). ALL his great-grandparents were descended from the same couple: Philip I of Castile and Joanna of Castile ("Juana la loca").
He was, thankfully, infertile. But his death set off the War of the Spanish Succession.
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