Did the Romans Know How Old the Pyramids Were?

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  @Zebred2001 · 4 years ago (edited)

  Fun fact: At least 37 years after the obelisk was set up there were still people in Egypt that could have read it. The last known Egyptian inscription is dated to 24 August A.D. 394. This was a dedicatory inscription devotion to a god recorded in a temple near Aswan.

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• JK

  @jk484 · 4 years ago

  Amazing how the ancient Egyptians were as ancient to the Romans as the Romans are to us. The Greeks also had their own 'ancient' Greeks, such as Plato in 390 bc or so discussing the siege of Troy, which they believed took place 1400 years earlier, around 1700 BC

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• GB

  @gbennett58 · 4 years ago

  “What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.”  - Mark Twain

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• AL

  @alonehobo · 4 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkrhwBl3jms&amp;t=299">4:59</a> Marc Antony: &quot;I just ate a kebab so bad I might stab myself. Cute girls though LOL.&quot;

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• BA

  @Bargadiel · 4 years ago

  A video on ancient tourism would be really interesting. I figured that traveling by sea was still pretty dangerous, and that most people didn&apos;t have the disposable income to travel for pleasure.

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• LU

  @lukesmith1818 · 4 years ago

  Interesting to note that hieroglyphics were restricted to priests. I learned elsewhere that the majority of the pantheon was worshipped by the nobility who made sure rain fell and that victory in battle would be assured. The peasants worshipped household gods. So there was a real class divide with religion

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• JE

  @Je_QzcY3mN0 · 4 years ago

  People talk about aliens moving rocks for pyramids, but I&apos;ve never heard anyone caring about romans moving a huge obelsisc lol

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• TH

  @TheLastArbiter · 4 years ago (edited)

  I remember hearing that Egypt was as ancient to Rome as Rome is to us and being amazed

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• R3

  @r3conwoo · 4 years ago

  I&apos;ve never thought to think about what the Romans thought about the Pyramids but as soon as I read the title I couldn&apos;t help but wonder.

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• RA

  @rafailpanagiotidis6567 · 4 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkrhwBl3jms&amp;t=125">2:05</a> Numa wrote the hardest diss track of antiquity

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• PO

  @PomazeBog1389 · 4 years ago

  <i><b>THE NEXT I COMPLAIN ABOUT MOVING SOMETHING HEAVY FROM MY LIVING ROOM TO THE BASEMENT, I WILL THINK ABOUT THE 900,000 LB OBELISK THAT WAS MOVED FROM EGYPT TO ROME.</b></i><b></b>

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• CD

  @cdntrooper3078 · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkrhwBl3jms&amp;t=111">1:51</a> “Numa working on bars for his next album” Amazing

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