Egyptologists uncover rare tombs from before the Pharaohs
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#2>The tombs include 68 from the Buto period that began around 3300 B.C. and five from the Naqada III period, which was just before the emergence of Egypt's first dynasty around 3100 B.C., according to a statement from the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.
This is incredible. When you zoom out of your daily life, zoom out before smartphones, before electricity, before most modern countries exist... there were other civilizations, living daily lives, probably considering many of the same concerns we have today (family, health, work). Just wild.
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#3>The tombs include 68 from the Buto period that began around 3300 B.C. and five from the Naqada III period, which was just before the emergence of Egypt's first dynasty around 3100 B.C., according to a statement from the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. This is incredible. When you zoom out of your daily life, zoom out before smartphones, before electricity, before most modern countries exist... there were other…
Also, a bunch of stuff that seems super-old actually isn't. There were still lions in the Caucusus until the 10th century... CE, not BCE. A thousand years earlier they lived in Thrace, too. There were still some wooly mammoths alive when the Great Pyramids were being built.
Similarly, living history can sometimes reach closer to the modern day than one might appreciate. There were (probably—some of the stories lack documentation) a few people born into legal chattel slavery in the US still alive while Martin Luther King, Jr. was active. The "Old West" and settler/Western Expansion days were still very much in living memory when early western radio serials and films were made, so it's entirely possible (likely, even) that a couple honest-to-god gunslingers (rare though they may have been, and as unlike their film counterparts) or victims/perpetrators of settler/native violence sat down and watched romanticized Westerns on the big screen. Shane is set in 1889 and came out in 1953. Lots of people alive during the fictionalized events of the film were still alive then. At least a few people who fought in or witnessed actual fighting in the Civil War likely watched Keaton's The General in a movie theater, or (more ominously) Griffith's The Birth of a Nation.
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#4>The tombs include 68 from the Buto period that began around 3300 B.C. and five from the Naqada III period, which was just before the emergence of Egypt's first dynasty around 3100 B.C., according to a statement from the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. This is incredible. When you zoom out of your daily life, zoom out before smartphones, before electricity, before most modern countries exist... there were other…
And a lot of war and religion.
What destroyed most of the empires was succession battles resulting in civil war, all through the late 1800s.
I've been watching the Fall of Civilizations Youtube channel, and the South Americans really messed up succession.
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#5I love how much history is unearthed helping us understand the modern era. This is a great example of cancer being found in the skeletons and mummies in ancient Egypt:
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-26627941
https://www.curetoday.com/view/ancient-history-two-mummies-d...
- Early healthcare and medicine in Ancient Egypt:
https://ecancer.org/en/journal/article/746-the-past-and-futu...
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#6>The tombs include 68 from the Buto period that began around 3300 B.C. and five from the Naqada III period, which was just before the emergence of Egypt's first dynasty around 3100 B.C., according to a statement from the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. This is incredible. When you zoom out of your daily life, zoom out before smartphones, before electricity, before most modern countries exist... there were other…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-nasir
This is one of my favourite things. It's an incredibly old, historically important text in a dead language and it's just a customer complaint.
>"You have put ingots which were not good before my messenger and said, 'If you want to take them, take them. If you do not want to take them, go away'.
3750 years ago some dude was still showing up and trying to rip people off and pull the "cash in hand" choosing beggar play.
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#7>The tombs include 68 from the Buto period that began around 3300 B.C. and five from the Naqada III period, which was just before the emergence of Egypt's first dynasty around 3100 B.C., according to a statement from the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. This is incredible. When you zoom out of your daily life, zoom out before smartphones, before electricity, before most modern countries exist... there were other…
My favorite fact that puts time in perspective is that Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon Landing than the building of the great pyramids. (Also sometimes phrased as living closer in time to the first Pizza Hut instead of Moon Landing.) If you search it, you'll find listicles that go through a bunch of these fun facts.
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#8>The tombs include 68 from the Buto period that began around 3300 B.C. and five from the Naqada III period, which was just before the emergence of Egypt's first dynasty around 3100 B.C., according to a statement from the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. This is incredible. When you zoom out of your daily life, zoom out before smartphones, before electricity, before most modern countries exist... there were other…
Also, a bunch of stuff that seems super-old actually isn't. There were still lions in the Caucusus until the 10th century... CE, not BCE. A thousand years earlier they lived in Thrace, too. There were still some wooly mammoths alive when the Great Pyramids were being built. Similarly, living history can sometimes reach closer to the modern day than one might appreciate. There were (probably—some of the stories lack d…
Another good one, https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/06/04/she-was-la...
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#9Article just auto closes for me and takes me to a list of articles. Is there an alternative link?
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#10>The tombs include 68 from the Buto period that began around 3300 B.C. and five from the Naqada III period, which was just before the emergence of Egypt's first dynasty around 3100 B.C., according to a statement from the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. This is incredible. When you zoom out of your daily life, zoom out before smartphones, before electricity, before most modern countries exist... there were other…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-nasir This is one of my favourite things. It's an incredibly old, historically important text in a dead language and it's just a customer complaint. >"You have put ingots which were not good before my messenger and said, 'If you want to take them, take them. If you do not want to take them, go away'. 3750 years ago some dude was still showing up and trying to rip p…
> 3750 years ago some dude was still showing up and trying to rip people off and pull the "cash in hand" choosing beggar play.
It wasn't so much a scam, but a dispute over quality control of all things. Other tablets were found along with that one that included a customer complaining that he was tired of receiving low quality ingots. They knew enough about metallurgy six thousand years ago to have legal disputes over impurities!