After being in various discussions across the internet about ancient Kmt[Egypt] it appears that many people over romanticize Egypt to obsurdity. True the civlization was advanced for its time period but it was not the only advanced civlization in existence. You had people in other regions like MesoAmerica Mesopotamia,and China doing pretty much the same thing that ancient Egyptians were doing.

To me ancient Egypt[Kmt] is more than just pyramids and,inventions,and mathematics. It's part of a living history that I have from my ancestors,and its still alive within me. No matter how many foreigners came and went within Egyptian soil it was something that was simply my heritage. My ancestors were simple farmers from Aswan,and continued to be for many generations.

Ancient Egypt is much more than pyramids. Not evenybody in ancient Egyptian society were nobles or pharaohs or priests. Infact,most were farmers and priests. Are the farmers and craftsmen no less important than the pharaohs and nobles? What is their story?

Is Egypt this utopia of a place where no wrong can exist? Are the Egyptians simply human? Where the Egyptians all innocent people that never stepped on anyone or oppressed them?

1 - It's prominance in Judeo-Christian religion. Despite getting cursed in the Torah for the Exodus, Egypt is mentioned very often throughout the book. From Abraham, to Joseph, to Jesus, biblical patriarchs constantly found refuge in Egypt.

2 - Movies. We haven't seen any movies about ancient China or Mesopotamia and I doubt we ever will.

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Originally posted by ausar:

You had people in other regions like MesoAmerica Mesopotamia,and China doing pretty much the same thing that ancient Egyptians were doing.

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Thought Writes:

State formation occured about a thousand years later in China and Mesopatamia had City-States, but did not have a unified state as expansive as Ancient Egypt. Egyptian civilization started earlier than Chinese and lasted longer than Sumerian.

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Thought Writes:

State formation occured about a thousand years later in China and Mesopatamia had City-States, but did not have a unified state as expansive as Ancient Egypt. Egyptian civilization started earlier than Chinese and lasted longer than Sumerian.

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Yes, ancient Egyptian civlization lasted longer than Sumerian only because of the natural location of the Nile Valley. Very few foreigners could penetrate the Nile Valley except for the Delta.

New excavations in China are showing cities as old as 8,000 years in China. Are you aware archaeologist have found man made structures submerged in parts of Taiwan that about this old?

Who knows what a pick or a shovel of archaeologist will turn up.

Thought Writes:

What evidence do you have to support this contention?

{New excavations in China are showing cities as old as 8,000 years in China. Are you aware archaeologist have found man made structures submerged in parts of Taiwan that about this old?}

Thought Writes:

Man made structures = cities?

{Who knows what a pick or a shovel of archaeologist will turn up}

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At this point we will have to wait. However, at present Egypt is older.

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Is Egypt this utopia of a place where no wrong can exist? Are the Egyptians simply human? Where the Egyptians all innocent people that never stepped on anyone or oppressed them?

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Originally posted by ausar:
Yes, ancient Egyptian civlization lasted longer than Sumerian only because of the natural location of the Nile Valley. Very few foreigners could penetrate the Nile Valley except for the Delta.

New excavations in China are showing cities as old as 8,000 years in China. Are you aware archaeologist have found man made structures submerged in parts of Taiwan that about this old?

Who knows what a pick or a shovel of archaeologist will turn up.

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