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Thanks Blam.This long-buried statue is one of 730 -- one for every day and night of the year -- that guarded a vast collection of gates, colonnades, courts and halls built by the great Egyptian king Amenhotep III, who reigned over Egypt for 38 years in the 14th century B.C., at the height of peace and prosperity.The steady economic, military, and moral decline of Egypt during the 18th Dynasty still puzzles Egyptologists. /sarc |
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“The steady economic, military, and moral decline of Egypt during the 18th Dynasty still puzzles Egyptologists. /sarc “
Please explain this.
When I see articles like this saying such as “... thought to have been [destroyed, decayed, etc.] centuries ago...” I can’t help but hope that some day some duplicate copy of the Library of Alexandria were discovered... What a tremendous loss that was!