ItsBad

The source materials for "what we know" about Ancient Egypt are from the Oxyrhynchus Papyri.

Allegedly from an ancient rubbish dump, fragments the size of cornflakes were pieced together to form the documents.

This story is inconceivable.

  • That somehow of all things an ancient rubbish dump preserved information stored on matter that decays over time. Can't find any other sources, but somehow, a dump for disposing of trash magically preserved them.

  • That somehow it is possible to piece together tiny decayed fragments of documents to recreate the original.

Based on the absurd backstory, and other weirdness like Tutankhamun's tomb looking more like a storage area than a burial place than a revered location...

I've come to the conclusion that it's very likely Ancient Egypt is a complete hoax.

Things like the pyramids were made in relatively modern times, maybe 1800s, with a bunch of concrete.

albatrosv15

New Chronology?

fastregister

the same is true for many other key historic documents. see how religious scriptues become scientific proof, allowing the jews to steal israel. they got hundreds of settlements around the world, always legitimized by some shady archeological or spiritual proof, like unearthing a teapot remotely resembling one of their religious utensils. become proof of historic jewish settlement.

the debunking of the pyramids, exposing them as the hoax, will end tourism to egypt all together, nobody ever went to egypt if it wasnt for the pyramids or faked mysteries around them. there are loads of money in the fake history business. the fake history also legitimizes the existence of their very fake countries.

benjitsu

You are fucking retarded

ardvarcus

This idiotic narrative is based on a very popular fallacy -- that we are not capable today of building what was built in the past, so how could our ancestors possibly have built these things? You run into this idea again and again in pop anthropology and New Age theories about the history of mankind. It is a fallacy because our ancestors had skills we do not develop, such as the shaping and moving of large blocks of stone. We have other skills that they did not develop, such as bonding composite materials. Our ancestors were not stupid. Their brains were about the same as our brains today. They relied less on writing and more on memory than we do. They had associations or guilds of extremely skilled craftsmen who excelled in the working of stone, glass, metals and wood. We rely more on machines than they did -- they used simple tools, but they did amazing things with them. They couldn't build the Hoover Dam, but they could build the pyramids (although, you could make a good case that the ancient Romans could have built the Hoover Dam).

ItsBad

It's not inconceivable that we're getting dumber but aren't aware of it.

I use technology, especially software, all the time, and I've noticed it keeps getting worse.

Also the other way around is possible. Not that ancient sites were built in ancient times with modern technology. But that "ancient sites" were fabricated in recent times with modern technology.

dan_k

Sure would like to see one of these ancients fix the WiFi on Insight, I mean damn we can operate on a grape for Christ sake.