also T-rex lived closer to us than to dinosaurs alive during the Jurassic.

Well, when you put it that way. 🙂

"All men are fools and what makes them so is having beauty like what I have got." - Cleopatra, via #MorecambeAndWise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtHNrRk3lQM

I wonder if Cleopatra ever viewed the ruins of Pi-Ramesses, and mentioned to an advisor that they lived closer to Ramesses-II than he did to the Great Pyramid?

Of course, I have no idea how Egyptians would have viewed their own historiography, whether it would have had the same meaning to them as it does to us?

I just finished translating a museum exhibition on Ancient Egypt that’s about to open, and the more I learn about it, the more my mind kind of slowly blows. Though I guess a civilization that lasts over 3,000 years is bound to come up with a few innovations. 🤯

That‘s an amazing perspective. Thanks.

Sometimes I feel this way in reference to WW2. Which I was born 18 years after it ended. Now I am more than 3*18 years old.

As someone from #Egypt (poor at #history) I did not realized this…

Thanks, for sharing & here’s something in return:

#culture #travel @histodons

boy, this is a real kick in the asp

Macedonian conquerors, boo.