• medgremlin@midwest.social
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      Ancient Egypt as we think of it had archeologists that studied the original smaller kingdoms that unified to become Egypt. Cleopatra is closer to our time than she was to the building of the Great Pyramids.

      And if some dumbass wants to make some kind of argument about the US being a super special first Christian country, they should know that Ethiopia was the first country to declare itself as a Christian nation in the 300’s CE…and has been a contiguous sovereign state since then.

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      Ancient Egypt is generally regarded as the unifying to when Rome took over. That’s like 3000 BC to somewhere around Caesars time. So like 3000 years they existed in that general form.

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        Around 6,600 HE, for the first dynasty. The last dynasty with a native ruler was the thirtieth dynasty, where Nectanebo II reigned from 9,342 HE to 9,360 HE.

        Current year is 11,725 HE. (I use the Holocene calendar, albeit with a modification of -300 years, to correct for the fact that the Holocene era starts 300 years later than the commonly used Holocene calendar).

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          What is HE? I have never seen that used before. Most writer have switched from BC/AD to BCE/CE (before current era/current era), but that is the only thing that changes with the dates.