Hermione Wrote:
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> Byrd Wrote:
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>
> ...
>
> > Only if you've got documents from a particular
> > time period that show the Egyptians knew it was
> a
> > globe (and WHEN they knew this) and that they
> used
> > it. We've got documentation from the time of
> > Pythagoras that show all this.
>
> ...
>
> Yes ... Shame Merer doesn't say anything about it.
> Just talks about sailing up and down the Nile ...
> no help at all.

It would have been 'useful' if he had rattled off a bunch of numbers - for the quarry, the harbor and Giza - but he didn't. I forget - how did he express moving from place to place in distance or time?

...and there is the answer in the next message! ""To the best of my knowledge, they talk about sailing times because distance wasn't that important. Travel was by river, not road, and the time depends on which way you're going and what the season is. Knowing that it's 400 miles from Luxor to Cairo was no help to them since there was no way to walk/drive that distance"



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/23/2022 12:45PM by Hans_lune.