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Egypt is special because of the incredibly dry desert conditions. How many other places are there like Egypt where a tremendous empire existed for thousands of
by irrational 5y ago
Egypt is special because of the incredibly dry desert conditions. How many other places are there like Egypt where a tremendous empire existed for thousands of years surrounded by an environment so dry that it could preserve papyrus for 4000+ years?
- xenadu02 5y agoThis also greatly contributed to the preservation of the Pyramids themselves. The great North African deserts come and go in extremely long cycles however. At some point a wet period will return and much of the preserved artifacts will be severely degraded or erased.
- dr_dshiv 5y ago3 tremendous empires, depending how you count. Egypt, Greece, Rome...
- irrational 5y agoGreece and Rome hardly count. They aren't surrounded by incredibly dry deserts where paper or papyrus would last for 4000 years. Would it even last a year in Italy or Greece? Doubtful.
- dr_dshiv 5y agoI mean both Greece and Rome operated Egypt as a major part of their overall empire. So Egypt was, for hundreds of years, not an Egyptian Empire