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I alluded to European expeditions to Egypt for a reason :-) Though maybe there's only a brief window of development in which a culture is both not superstitiou
by brimble 5y ago
I alluded to European expeditions to Egypt for a reason :-)
Though maybe there's only a brief window of development in which a culture is both not superstitious enough to be scared by this, and also lacks the technology & knowledge to figure out what you actually mean and verify it themselves.
- thaumasiotes 5y agoEuropeans could read Egyptian inscriptions for two reasons: - A descendant language had been preserved in the Coptic Bible. - The Rosetta Stone provided a parallel text between Egyptian and Greek, and Greek was well understood. But the ability to read Greek gave us more than just an understanding of what the Rosetta Stone said. The Greeks wrote a lot about Egypt, too.