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May 9, 2024, 10:48 pm UTC    
May 10, 2007 10:39PM
I figured this was more social than scientific or scholarly.

Why Egypt. Why does everyone focus on Egypt for their pseudoarchaeological/numeralogical/alternative history/other unsupported theories?

If you want to show math/star connections, something like Mesoamerican pre-Columbian cultures have much more evidence of both.

The Egyptians, as one might expect from a territorial state, were not as technically advanced as nearby cultures, and developed their technology at a slower rate. They didn't even get chariots until the Hyksos.

It just baffles me that there is so much known about Egypt contrary to many of these theories, but that they still keep looking for gaps to throw some theory into, and I cannot understand why it is so focused on Egypt when there are a bunch of other early complex socieites that could be host as well.
(I know that some similar theories and issues do come up with China and Indus valley, but these are usually target at China/Chinese and Indea/Indeans respectivelly, instead of the broad target that Egypt seems to have.)
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Why Egypt

Thadd May 10, 2007 10:39PM

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Thadd May 11, 2007 08:20AM

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Dave L May 11, 2007 10:24AM

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Thadd May 12, 2007 02:25PM

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Thadd May 12, 2007 09:58PM

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Thadd May 13, 2007 02:05PM

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Dave L May 13, 2007 02:45PM

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Hermione May 13, 2007 02:50PM

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Thadd May 13, 2007 03:07PM

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Thadd May 13, 2007 04:11PM

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Hermione May 13, 2007 04:20PM

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Damian Walter May 13, 2007 01:55PM

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Damian Walter May 13, 2007 02:14PM

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darkuser May 11, 2007 11:21AM

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Roxana Cooper May 13, 2007 10:28AM

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Thadd May 13, 2007 02:17PM

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Damian Walter May 13, 2007 02:21PM

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Hermione May 13, 2007 02:23PM

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Thadd May 13, 2007 05:44PM

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Thadd May 13, 2007 08:31PM

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Hermione May 14, 2007 02:20AM



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