Those are all over YouTube. I love them!
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient Egypt
Possibly Aye felt the succession couldn't wait, especially if Hittite princes were sniffing around. Maybe Ankhesenamun preferred Aye who she trusted and who wouldn't insist on sleeping with her? Horemheb was probably philosophical about it. Aye was a very old man after all, he wouldn't have long to wait.
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient Egypt
"It's always, 'I will drink your soul' or 'I will chew the flesh from your bones' with these hellish apparitions," Whitson said. "When I ask them if that means the ancient Etruscans did, in fact, add copper to their mixing clay to make their urns more sturdy, they don't even seem to hear me."
I feel your pain, Dr. Whitson. I mean what is point
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Roxana Cooper
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Coffee Shop
The so called Lost Tribes almost certainly assimilated with their Assyrian captors. Any who failed to so probably eventually returned to Judah and integrated with the Israelites there. They certainly did not maintain their Jewish identity and migrate to the Americas or Britain or wherever.
There are some very far flung diaspora populations that have maintained Jewish identity but they all origin
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Roxana Cooper
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Paper Lens
Tut was not a perfectly healthy young man, and even if he had been healthy young people died all the time of accident or infectious disease.
There is no good reason to believe At or Horemheb wanted to get rid of Tut. Despite his health problems he was shaping into a classic New Kingdom pharaoh and his mentors may well have been proud of him. His death was disaster for his dynasty and for an Egyp
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient Egypt
Foolish he who seeks the grave of Arthur, the once and future king.
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient History
So I'm not the only reader totally confused by that article? I mean what the HELL do the battle of Kadesh and Rameses' inarguable ego have to do with the Exodus narrative?
As anybody who reads the standard Kadesh narrative can readily see a young and inexperienced Rameses got himself and the advance guard of his army into an untenable situation redeemed in his own eyes by the valor he
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient History
So the sickle isn't unprecedented. But the precedent comes from Poland. Interesting. So we have an intersex person buried in norse-danish style clothes, in Finland, with a Polish rite? That's very multicultural. I don't know how unusual such a combination would be.
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient History
Lack of provenance is always a red flag. Put that together with the odd and un-Egyptian artistic style and unidentified script and you've got a highly suspicious piece.
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient Egypt
I find this burial enormously interesting. These elite women clearly died at a about the same time. Is there any indication of cause of death? Do they know if the ladies were related? was the obviously very important eldest woman buried with her adult daughters and a granddaughter? Were the other women her retinue to the afterlife?
The case for some Scythian women fighting as warriors seems pr
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient History
The facts are simple. The grave of person suffering from a genetic condition that made them intersex, NOT non-binary which is a modern gender not a physical condition, was found in Finland. The person was buried dressed in female garb indicating she identified as female. Whether this was her choice, her family's or society 's we can never know.
She must have led a difficult life as
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient History
The Mother Country is making Florida look tame.
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Roxana Cooper
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Coffee Shop
Oh my God! Those are cracks, not rivers!
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient History
How about a picture of the supposed sphinx?
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient Egypt
Some kind of atavistic urge? Will they be erecting stone circles next?
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Roxana Cooper
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Coffee Shop
Amen. Pyramids are surrounded by other burials and temples for the Dead. Many contain sarcophagi and some even have human remains. What more evidence do you need???
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient Egypt
Gobekli Tepe, site of the annual All Anatolia Beer Bash.
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient History
Definitely influenced by classical art if they are genuine. I don't know if that's been confirmed.
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient Egypt
Well of course Columbus knew there were lands within sailing distance of the Western coast of Europe! That's why he wanted to travel there!! His big mistake was assuming that those lands had to be Asia.
"Farther westwards there is another land, named Marckalada, where giants live; in this land, there are buildings with such huge slabs of stone that nobody could build them, except hug
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient History
They look Ptolemaic to me, at earliest. Maybe even Roman.
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient Egypt
Information on Egyptian women can be frustratingly difficult to find. We actually know very little about even the famous 18th dynasty ladies, and that little is liberally mixed with speculation and fantasy.
My favorite genealogical resource is 'The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt' by Aidan Dodson and Dyan Hilton.
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient Egypt
"They found that the ancient Egyptians were most closely related to the peoples of the Near East, particularly from the Levant. This is the Eastern Mediterranean which today includes the countries of Turkey, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon."
Wow! Color me stunned! The AEs were closely linked genetically with their nearest neighbors. Who'd have guessed it? Anybody who wa
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient Egypt
Heaven knows I find Ancient Pharaonic genealogies fascinating but I can't see how knowing King Teti had three queens instead of just two is paradigm breaking. Interesting certainly but it doesn't really change much.
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient Egypt
The Hebrews were slaves in Egypt but there's nothing in the Bible about building pyramids. As I recall they built treasure cities in the Delta. Pi-Ramses for one.
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient Egypt
Seriously cool. But City of Gold seems like an overstatement. Sounds like a housing estate and industrial center for the temples.
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient Egypt
IMO the ancient kings would have loved the pagentry. They weren't exactly shrinking violets. They starred in series of fabulous ceremonies throughout their lives and dotted the Nile with monuments. Yes they tried to protect their treasures, and failed miserably. Whyever would they object to being given new treasures and a fabulous new funerary procession.
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient Egypt
But they were disturbed !omg before Egyptologists got to them. Egyptologists protect and preserve the mummies and make the name known and remembered. The Souls in the Field of Reeds must love Egyptologists!
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient Egypt
Personal I think the ancient pharoahs and queens would have loved every minute of the spectacle. Mounted escorts! Chariots! Lots of gold! Just what an AE royal likes. And their names trumpeted to the far for sure of the Earth meaning their afterlife is secure.
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient Egypt
Where this really falls down IMO is the sheer unlikelihood of the AEs preserving and retelling a story that has nothing to do with Egypt. The AEs were not interested in other peoples. Certainly not ones as remote as the Greeks, much less putative Atlanteans. There is furthermore no evidence Solon ever visited Egypt.
There is not one good reason to believe Atlantis was anything but a fictional c
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Roxana Cooper
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Ancient Egypt
