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People view old Egyptian culture as one homogeneous whole when in fact there were major tech changes over the millennia. Some elements like the formal writing d
by peter303 10y ago
People view old Egyptian culture as one homogeneous whole when in fact there were major tech changes over the millennia. Some elements like the formal writing did stay somewhat constant.
First, the dyration of dynasty was one and a half times longer than our time back to Jesus. That is a long time!
Maybe the Catholic Church starts to approach with some factors staying constant during 2000 years and others changing.
Second there were major tech upgrades at times icluding the adoption of the wheel, the horse and iron weapons. Enemy armies discovered these first, beat up Egyptians, who then eventually learned these new techs.
- dominotw 10y ago>People view old Egyptian culture as one homogeneous whole when in fact there were major tech changes over the millennia. I think viewing them as homogenous has basis in the fact that their religion, belief systems, social structures remained virtually unchanged for thousands of years. Ofcourse they built better boats, better tools, better tombs, better textiles, better mummifications techniques; but underlying philosophy and religion was virtually unchanged from old dynasty to Cleopatra.
- specialist 10y agoThe Met's Egyptian exhibits have artifacts spanning those millennia. I just had no idea. I went in blasé about ancient Egypt and left determined to become an Egyptologist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art