pretty interesting egypt history stuff

John F. Kerry · 05-15-2011, 02:03 PM

egyptian history is pretty incredible. at least the ancient stuff.

so for those who didnt know, in ancient egypt new pharaohs often would chissel out the names of old rulers and replace them with their own stories.... and savy pharaohs would order their monuments cut extra deep so that it would be harder to remove their words for future kings.

so this article brings that ancient history to the modern era by talking about the recent court order in egypt to remove mubaraks name from all public buildings and schools etc...

pretty interesting read, dunno if im the only person who thinks so, but yahooka has been slow lately so here ya go.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/15/opinion/15bond.html

clive · 05-15-2011, 03:09 PM

i was expecting somethin more interesting tbh...

**SageTree** · 05-16-2011, 07:06 AM

Funny how the more shit that seems to change the more its still the same ye olde

.AcidTrip. · 07-18-2011, 09:36 PM

I'm proud to be egyptian.

Egypt is known for making pretty respectful history, specially the ancient.

ancient egypt has so much wisdom that still is undiscovered, i would really hope that one day we will know the cause for many of there actions, they have reached something big, something we don't have, we just don't know what that is.

deadhead94 · 07-18-2011, 09:51 PM

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Originally Posted by .AcidTrip.

ancient egypt has so much wisdom that still is undiscovered, i would really hope that one day we will know the cause for many of there actions, they have reached something big, something we don't have, we just don't know what that is.

The Egyptians discarded the brain during mummification because they thought it wasn't important. They didn't know anything we don't. At least not anything relevant to the 21st century.

cantSEEme · 07-19-2011, 06:32 AM

Library of Alexandria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The Royal Library of Alexandria, or Ancient Library of Alexandria, in Alexandria, Egypt, was the largest and most significant great library of the ancient world. It flourished under the patronage of the Ptolemaic dynasty and functioned as a major center of scholarship from its construction in the 3rd century BC until the Roman conquest of Egypt in 30 BC. The library was conceived and opened either during the reign of Ptolemy I Soter (323–283 BC) or during the reign of his son Ptolemy II (283–246 BC).[1]

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The first known library of its kind to gather a serious collection of books from beyond its country's borders, the Library at Alexandria was charged with collecting all the world's knowledge. It did so through an aggressive and well-funded royal mandate involving trips to the book fairs of Rhodes and Athens[8] and a policy of pulling the books off every ship that came into port. They kept the original texts and made copies to send back to their owners.[1] This detail is informed by the fact that Alexandria, because of its man-made bidirectional port between the mainland and the Pharos island, welcomed trade from the East and West, and soon found itself the international hub for trade, as well as the leading producer of papyrus and, soon enough, books.[citation needed]

Other than collecting works from the past, the library was also home to a host of international scholars, well-patronized by the Ptolemaic dynasty with travel, lodging and stipends for their whole families. As a research institution, the library filled its stacks with new works in mathematics, astronomy, physics, natural sciences and other subjects. Its empirical standards applied in one of the first and certainly strongest homes for serious textual criticism.[citation needed] As the same text often existed in several different versions, comparative textual criticism was crucial for ensuring their veracity. Once ascertained, canonical copies would then be made for scholars, royalty and wealthy bibliophiles the world over, this commerce bringing income to the library.

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It is now impossible to determine the collection's size in any era with any certainty. Papyrus scrolls comprised the collection, and although parchment codices were used after 300 BC, the Alexandrian Library is never documented as having switched to parchment, perhaps because of its strong links to the papyrus trade. (The Library of Alexandria in fact had an indirect cause in the creation of writing parchment — due to the library's critical need for papyrus, little was exported and thus an alternate source of copy material became essential.)[citation needed]

A single piece of writing might occupy several scrolls, and this division into self-contained "books" was a major aspect of editorial work. King Ptolemy II Philadelphus (309–246 BC) is said to have set 500,000 scrolls as an objective for the library.[10] Mark Antony supposedly gave Cleopatra over 200,000 scrolls (taken from the great Library of Pergamum) for the library as a wedding gift, but this is regarded by some historians as a propagandist claim meant to show Antony's allegiance to Egypt rather than Rome.[citation needed] No index of the library survives, and it is not possible to know with certainty how large and how diverse the collection may have been. For example, it is likely that even if the Library of Alexandria had hundreds of thousands of scrolls (and thus perhaps tens of thousands of individual works), some of these would have been duplicate copies or alternate versions of the same texts.

A possibly apocryphal or exaggerated story concerns how the library's collection grew so large. By decree of Ptolemy III of Egypt, all visitors to the city were required to surrender all books and scrolls, as well as any form of written media in any language in their possession which, according to Galen, were listed under the heading "books of the ships".[11] Official scribes then swiftly copied these writings, some copies proving so precise that the originals were put into the library, and the copies delivered to the unsuspecting owners.[12] This process also helped to create a reservoir of books in the relatively new city.

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Ancient and modern sources identify four possible occasions for the partial or complete destruction of the Library of Alexandria:

1. Julius Caesar's Fire in The Alexandrian War, in 48 BC
2. The attack of Aurelian in the 3rd century AD;
3. The decree of Coptic Pope Theophilus in AD 391;
4. The Muslim conquest in 642 AD or thereafter.

not saying you're wrong deadhead, but our knowledge is basically a collection of history. imagine if this library had never been destroyed, and all the original texts, even ones that were copied several times in several languages, still existed. how many theories and hypotheses and the general knowledge that we now know millennia later would've been part of our collective conscious all along? how much further ahead would we have progressed as a society by now if these works were still around? what if there was some type of ancient knowledge that we still don't know about that was destroyed?

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.AcidTrip. .....I..... Join Date: Jul 2011 Posts: 12 Thanks: 1 Thanked 6 Times in 5 Posts	I'm proud to be egyptian. Egypt is known for making pretty respectful history, specially the ancient. ancient egypt has so much wisdom that still is undiscovered, i would really hope that one day we will know the cause for many of there actions, they have reached something big, something we don't have, we just don't know what that is. __________________ By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

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