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tarheelhockey

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You know what's crazy about Egypt? How OLD the civilization is. Even during the times we think of as "Ancient Egypt", they had museums in Egypt at that time that were dedicated to Ancient Egyptian civilization.

The oldest hewn-stone structure known to man is the Step Pyramid, designed by Imhotep, the first architect and physician known by name in written history. Imhotep was thought to have lived in the 3rd Egyptian dynasty, around 2600 BC. But we have evidence of civilizations in Egypt about 1400 years earlier than that.

To me the most mind-boggling thing is to do the work to get your head around the age of Egyptian culture (call it 6000 years) and then use that for perspective on the age of modern human history… 300,000 years.

Meaning 98% of our history will never be known through anything more than the slightest traces, the odd bone or tool left behind. Imagine all the societies that rose and fell, the epic sagas that took place, wars that were fought, tools that were invented and forgotten, works that left no artifacts, and so on and on for hundreds of thousands of years.

I mean, just thinking about the animals which populated the world of the early modern humans is bonkers. The thought of people living beside some of these things is like something out of a fantasy novel, but it was the world that we inhabited for a time.

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So I come round to the thought that, while Egypt is mind-bogglingly old… at the same time, Egypt is also very new and part of a recognizable world.
 

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To me the most mind-boggling thing is to do the work to get your head around the age of Egyptian culture (call it 6000 years) and then use that for perspective on the age of modern human history… 300,000 years.

Meaning 98% of our history will never be known through anything more than the slightest traces, the odd bone or tool left behind. Imagine all the societies that rose and fell, the epic sagas that took place, wars that were fought, tools that were invented and forgotten, works that left no artifacts, and so on and on for hundreds of thousands of years.

I mean, just thinking about the animals which populated the world of the early modern humans is bonkers. The thought of people living beside some of these things is like something out of a fantasy novel, but it was the world that we inhabited for a time.

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So I come round to the thought that, while Egypt is mind-bogglingly old… at the same time, Egypt is also very new and part of a recognizable world.
especially when compared to @Gee Wally :sarcasm::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:
 

LostInaLostWorld

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To me the most mind-boggling thing is to do the work to get your head around the age of Egyptian culture (call it 6000 years) and then use that for perspective on the age of modern human history… 300,000 years.

Meaning 98% of our history will never be known through anything more than the slightest traces, the odd bone or tool left behind. Imagine all the societies that rose and fell, the epic sagas that took place, wars that were fought, tools that were invented and forgotten, works that left no artifacts, and so on and on for hundreds of thousands of years.

I mean, just thinking about the animals which populated the world of the early modern humans is bonkers. The thought of people living beside some of these things is like something out of a fantasy novel, but it was the world that we inhabited for a time.

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So I come round to the thought that, while Egypt is mind-bogglingly old… at the same time, Egypt is also very new and part of a recognizable world.
 

LakeLivin

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To me the most mind-boggling thing is to do the work to get your head around the age of Egyptian culture (call it 6000 years) and then use that for perspective on the age of modern human history… 300,000 years.

Meaning 98% of our history will never be known through anything more than the slightest traces, the odd bone or tool left behind. Imagine all the societies that rose and fell, the epic sagas that took place, wars that were fought, tools that were invented and forgotten, works that left no artifacts, and so on and on for hundreds of thousands of years.

I mean, just thinking about the animals which populated the world of the early modern humans is bonkers. The thought of people living beside some of these things is like something out of a fantasy novel, but it was the world that we inhabited for a time.

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So I come round to the thought that, while Egypt is mind-bogglingly old… at the same time, Egypt is also very new and part of a recognizable world.

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Blueline Bomber

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To me the most mind-boggling thing is to do the work to get your head around the age of Egyptian culture (call it 6000 years) and then use that for perspective on the age of modern human history… 300,000 years.

Meaning 98% of our history will never be known through anything more than the slightest traces, the odd bone or tool left behind. Imagine all the societies that rose and fell, the epic sagas that took place, wars that were fought, tools that were invented and forgotten, works that left no artifacts, and so on and on for hundreds of thousands of years.

I mean, just thinking about the animals which populated the world of the early modern humans is bonkers. The thought of people living beside some of these things is like something out of a fantasy novel, but it was the world that we inhabited for a time.

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So I come round to the thought that, while Egypt is mind-bogglingly old… at the same time, Egypt is also very new and part of a recognizable world.

How about the fact that we ARE living with some animals that populated the world at that time, and in fact, WELL before that time.

Sharks have been on Earth for 450 million years. Probably not the modern sharks we know today, but also probably not too distinctly different.
 
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tarheelhockey

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How about the fact that we ARE living with some animals that populated the world at that time, and in fact, WELL before that time.

Sharks have been on Earth for 450 million years. Probably not the modern sharks we know today, but also probably not too distinctly different.

Some things have literally perfect form, which can’t be improved upon even by hundreds of millions of years of selective pressure. Animals which are in that ~500M range are basically as old as the ozone layer which allows for oxygen breathing to take place, and the surviving OGs are examples of mathematical perfection.

Sharks are one, horseshoe crabs are another. As complex as they are structurally, horseshoe crabs have only undergone minor variation for 450 million years. The general concept of a crab is such an efficient body type that it has triumphed repeatedly in several different branches of the evolutionary tree:

 
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Surrounded By Ahos

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Meaning 98% of our history will never be known through anything more than the slightest traces, the odd bone or tool left behind. Imagine all the societies that rose and fell, the epic sagas that took place, wars that were fought, tools that were invented and forgotten, works that left no artifacts, and so on and on for hundreds of thousands of years.
I’ll sometimes just sit and think about how crazy those people had to be to expand all over the earth. The pacific especially. These people were in canoes, using stars to navigate and managed to populate nearly every landmass on the earth.

f***ing Hawaii is over 2000 miles away from the nearest landmass and people managed to reach it. It’s absurd.
 

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