Corvidius Wrote:
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> I wonder where the fringe think anybody wanting to
> learn about Ancient Egypt should go for their
> information. Which books should they consult, or
> if in education, which courses they should take
> and whose lectures should they attend. Because, if
> the ludicrous insult of pseudoscience, and all the
> other insults they heap on Egyptology, and from a
> recent comment elsewhere, all of archeaology, are
> true, then it cannot be from academia. So I would
> like the fringe to present a reading list of books
> on Ancient Egypt that is acceptable to them, and
> which university courses and which lecturers are
> acceptable to them.
>
> If I discard my library on the basis of what the
> fringe say, where then can I learn about temple
> ritual, priests, the role of the lector, coffins,
> Akhenaten's boundary stelae, and Amarna in
> general, cats, administration of the state, animal
> cults and mummies, daily life, birds and their
> impact on the culture, magical practice, daemons
> and spirits in the duat, chariots and many more
> topics, including Stonehenge as Mike Parker
> Pearson has also been condemned by the fringe.
> I'll take a vague guess that they cannot provide
> any alternative whatsoever, which makes me wonder
> why they call themselves "alts".
>
> So, those "alts" reading this, please provide an
> alternative to learning about Ancient Egypt that
> makes no use of the work done by Egyptologists,
> and for that matter prehistoric Britain now that
> perhaps one of the most foremost experts has been
> "trashed" by "alts".

The only sources I tried to use for many years were original sources. This means the artefacts themselves, dig reports, data, Pyramid Texts, Coffin Texts, Kent Week's works on mastabas, and various other ancient writings. There's almost nothing out there and the little that is is heavily interpreted by Egyptology but sticking with facts and the old writing might be critically important. Once you start learning what Egyptology believes it will affect you in subtle ways. I have a great deal of difficulty unlearning anything so it's always been very important to be sure I don't learn things that aren't true.

Other alts come at the questions from other angles but many use good methodology. Everyone has the exact same problem: Very few facts exist to interpret the pyramids and their function. With so few facts very little can be excluded as possible so there are countless off the wall and poorly thought out theories. But there are also some pretty good ideas out there that are simply being ignored because Egyptology is as insular as a pseudoscience.

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Man fears the pyramid, time fears man.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/02/2021 02:36PM by cladking.