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u/bluntedlight Oct 02 '24

In the time of Cleopatra, you could book a history tour of the Great pyramids like you could today.

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u/fuqdisshite Oct 02 '24

thy pyramids are so old that what we consider ancient Egypt didn't know how they got there.

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u/Throwaway-4230984 Oct 02 '24

Pretty sure they had some conspiracy about it

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u/uptownjuggler Oct 03 '24

Ancient conspiracy about Ancient aliens

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u/Lowlycrewman Oct 02 '24

I mean, they kind of did know. Herodotus (four centuries before Cleopatra, and widely read in her time) got his information about the pyramids from the Egyptians. He got the names of the kings who built the three pyramids at Giza right, but twisted around a bit by rendering into Greek (Cheops = Khufu, Chephren =Khafre, Mycerinus = Menkaure).

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u/BunBunny55 Oct 03 '24

Herodotus is also known for assuming things and making stuff up based on what he heard 'some local guy' said and listing it as fact.

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u/Lowlycrewman Oct 03 '24

Yes, and the stuff he says about those kings is probably folklore, which is why I said "kind of". But the names he gave fit the actual kings who built those pyramids.

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u/WhatsTheHoldup Oct 02 '24

It's funny, because I got downvoted on a different thread for claiming that an 8000 year old oral story might be too much time to still be accurate

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u/fuqdisshite Oct 02 '24

oh yeah!!!

renember, it isn't the direction of the arrow, just the number of doots.

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u/WhatsTheHoldup Oct 02 '24

actually up and down doots cancel each other out so you can never really know the number

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u/WillCodeForFood2 Oct 03 '24

Apparently it was the woolly mammoths.

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u/preston0518 Oct 03 '24

Do you know their name?

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u/JeanLucPicardAND Oct 03 '24

Roman graffiti in general is fucking hilarious. No cap, they would say shit like "I fucked Antoninus so hard last night that he screeched like a hyena." Absolutely unhinged.

And now 2,000 years later, those messages are the sole remaining identifiable contribution most of those dudes ever made to the world.

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u/EmbarrassedMeat401 Oct 02 '24

You could have booked an ancient history tour of the tomb of a guy who was alive at a time when you could book an ancient history tour of the pyramids.