Posted on 08/14/2022 8:31:36 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The Greeks and Romans were fascinated by the ancient monuments of Egypt. But they weren't sure just how ancient they were.
Did the Romans Know How Old the Pyramids Were? | August 12, 2022 | toldinstone
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:56 Ancient history's ancient history
2:41 Greeks and Romans in Egypt
3:23 Wealthfront
4:42 Egyptomania
5:15 The Pyramids
7:00 Why the Romans were wrong
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Most people today are unaware how old the pyramids are. They’re often shocked to find out that by the time of Abraham they were already about 1000 years old.
Easy. Stamped 1,400 B.C.
Did the Roman’s ask the Egyptians for a referral of a contractor,m
Yes, but the wage and hours laws were all but unknown in those days
Roman’s weren’t real sure how old they themselves were. Hence their various origin myths.
So, no, they had no idea how old the pyramids were.
“Est vetus, homo”.
Love Told in Stone...
Fascinating!
More like 500.
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The Egyptians didn’t know either, so, like good tour guides to this very day, they just made up ****. One of the reasons Herodotus’ Historia is my fave is, he wrote down what he was told most of the time, often with his own reaction to the infor, and other times, he said, I’m not writing it down. For instance, he gave the various stories he was told about why the Nile floods out of season, including the correct one, then gave one of his own that’s completely ridiculous but culturally and temporally appropriate. :^)
The now-missing facing stones on the Great Pyramid had hieroglyphs carved on them, and Herodotus asked someone what it said:
[snip] On the pyramid it is declared in Egyptian writing how much was spent on radishes and onions and leeks for the workmen, and if I rightly remember that which the interpreter said in reading to me this inscription, a sum of one thousand six hundred talents of silver was spent... [/snip]
It’s an interesting question. The great antiquity of the Earth wasn’t fully appreciated until ‘modern’ radiometric dating. As late as 1840 it was perfectly acceptable to believe the earth was a few thousand years old. But we now know that the great pyramids precede the Romans by mere moments in the large scale of time. In some ways the Romans were more ‘modern’ than present western culture.
In that case, so was my dad.
What I think you MEANT to say was, more time had passed between the pyramids construction and Cleopatra, than Cleopatra’s reign to today
“Yes, but the wage and hours laws were all but unknown in those days”
And they had lost all the permits. There would be h##l to pay when the inspectors show up next century.
You are correct.
Tour guides made up asterisks, I was wondering where they came from.
I believe it was primarily geology rather than radiocarbon dating that began to revise the age of the earth.
At least some people back in antiquity believed in a very remote origin of Egyptian civilization—hundreds of thousands of years. St. Augustine talks about these people in his “City of God” and takes them to task for so credulously believing in “histories” that were clearly falsified.
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