Hermione Wrote:
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> The names of ... elites dominate popular
> imagination of Ancient Egypt – a place of great
> empire, sprawling palaces and mighty monuments.
>
> Except that everything we have come to believe
> about the era is wrong, according to the British
> Egyptologist, historian and archaeologist John
> Romer, who has dedicated his life’s work to
> studying the period.
>
> [www.thenationalnews.com]


I've found little or no support for many things said about the culture from before the 5th dynasty. Certainly Egyptologists are familiar with many families and many relationships but tying it to anything solid is usually quite lacking and modern beliefs are induced or deduced based on scant knowledge and assumptions. Even the time line has been shown to be incorrect. More than a century of digging up artefacts has shown that what is really needed is hard data of a type that simply doesn't exist under the ground. We need to apply modern technology and scientific knowledge to create a framework to hold what is actually known by Egyptologists. This is a simple process of targeting what can be learned and then studying the anomalies. It's basic science that needs to be applied to the artefacts.

Most of Egyptological beliefs do not ring true to me. I don't believe that if Egyptology were right in their conclusions that we'd have the evidence we do. There would be an entirely different set of evidence that would reflect the culture and beliefs ascribed by Egyptologists to the ancient Egyptians.

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Man fears the pyramid, time fears man.