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Ancient Egyptians Built This 4-Towered Fortress More Than 2,600 Years Ago
Live Science ^ | May 20, 2019 | Laura Geggel, Associate Editor

Posted on 05/26/2019 10:32:42 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

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To: zeestephen

And yup, the Persian rule of Egypt lasted until Alexander the Great took over.


21 posted on 05/27/2019 1:12:09 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

An army swallowed up by a sandstorm. Wow. Seems some believe it and some don’t.

How the heck do you know all this stuff?

Do you teach it? Is it a hobby?


22 posted on 05/27/2019 1:15:54 AM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
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To: dp0622

Don’t feel bad. It’s hard keeping your nose in the books when the Italian Bakery on the corner is putting fresh cannollis out east morning. Hey, have a great day today.


23 posted on 05/27/2019 1:20:42 AM PDT by Undecided 2012
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To: dp0622
Just a hobby.

24 posted on 05/27/2019 1:21:17 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Wonderful post, as always!

I spent a year in the Sinai as a UN Observer and wandered all over. Didn't see that fortress but found many, many ancient structures. Hard to believe they paid me to be there!

25 posted on 05/27/2019 3:33:24 AM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: SunkenCiv

The 19th Dynasty existed in the 7th not the 13th century. The 19th and 26th Dynasties are the same as Velikovsky has claimed.


If this sort of conclusion keeps appearing about Velikovsky, people are going to have to acknowledge Something did happen out of the extraordinary and that what we think we know about prehistory is very wrong, And further that our solar system was, at one point, quite different from what we believe we know today.

For those who may be interested in pursuing Velikovsky’s writings about Egypt and what happened in prehistory: “Mankind in Amnesia”, the “Ages in Chaos” series Vol. 1-3. He is primarily known for his “Worlds in Collision” & “Earth in Upheaval”. Lest someone think he’s just a crackpot, in the 1950’s he correctly predicted what atmospheric conditions of Venus - then thought to be very Earth-like but with heavy cloud cover.

Thanks for the excerpt Civ.


26 posted on 05/27/2019 4:12:56 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Undecided 2012

Leave the gun, take the cannoli.


27 posted on 05/27/2019 5:01:28 AM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Undecided 2012

What did they do on west mornings?


28 posted on 05/27/2019 7:16:05 AM PDT by null and void (The press is always lying. When they aren't actively lying, they are actively concealing the truth.)
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To: Cronos

My son put Egypt into perspective: Cleopatra lived closer to the age of cell phones than to the building of the pyramids.


29 posted on 05/27/2019 7:38:52 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: SunkenCiv

Wasn’t Alexander Persian?


30 posted on 05/27/2019 7:40:01 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: GingisK
Alexander was Macedonian; his father Philip II made improvements to the phalanx form and made other improvements, which made it possible for him to conquer neighboring areas, including Greece. When Alexander inherited the throne, he led his forces across to Anatolia and started his conquest of the Persian Empire. After his untimely death, his empire split up into pieces ruled by his various generals, the longest lasting was that of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt.

31 posted on 05/27/2019 7:50:03 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: PIF
My pleasure.

32 posted on 05/27/2019 7:50:43 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Chainmail
Figures the gov't would send you to the Sinai as a UN Observer, when the UN is located in NYC. /jk
Sounds like a great time. It's remarkable that such a dry area has had so much activity, even over that many thousands of years.

33 posted on 05/27/2019 7:52:54 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Oh yeah! Thanks for unlocking those old memories! Ancient history is fascinating.

I wish we knew more about ancient America. It is troubling to see South American ruins without detailed history to go with them.

34 posted on 05/27/2019 8:29:39 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: GingisK
The decipherment of written Mayan has revolutionized the study of precolumbian central America, but precolumbian Andean writing doesn't appear to exist -- apart from quipu, which may have been a mnemonic system or even an accounting system, rather than a system of sort-of writing. Writing from precolumbian North American contexts is limited to short inscriptions left by ancient navigators from elsewhere. Even the purported Mayan colony in, hmm, Georgia I think, has no known inscriptions in it.

35 posted on 05/27/2019 9:47:16 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

#5 What it was turned into : )
It even say Establish 1921 BC


36 posted on 05/27/2019 6:15:36 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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37 posted on 05/05/2020 8:21:57 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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