Posted on 11/04/2024 11:01:00 PM PST by SunkenCiv
It’s too bad he didn’t marry a woman named Doris.
Mostly vice versa.
There’s a very nice example of an obsidian hand mirror, dug up in what’s now Syria I think, neolithic in date, about 7000 years old. I’m sure I’ve brought it up before. Last time I looked for an online image and, plllt, bupkis. Hmm. Might be 8000 years, apparently it came from Catal Huyuk.
https://search.brave.com/search?q=neolithic+obsidian+hand+mirror
Mostly vice versa.
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I know of no studies that conjecture ancient Egyptian art was influenced by Greek art. At least through the old, middle and new kingdoms. Just look at the Greek Kouros such as the first one you presented and tell me with a straight face that it wasn’t influenced by Egyptian statuary a thousand years older.
LOL, no doubt!
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The opening of Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922 and the alleged “curse of the pharaohs”.
I could believe it. Grave robbing guys with spells and curses...maybe not a good idea.
EVERY ONE IS ‘MORE MANLY” THAN TIM WALZ-———
and, Walz can’t be left alone unsupervised with ancient mummies.
Partly this is due to the conventional pseudochronology of the Egyptian New Kingdom; even with that, Greek artists were working in Egypt at precisely the time that Egyptian architecture and wall art changed.
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