Comment on Wisdom of the ancients

• zaphod@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Certainly in the Ptolemaic Period, and perhaps already under the Persians (525-343 BC)

  I mean that’s about 2000 years after the great pyramids were built.

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  • Rothe@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But it is also 2500 years before the crazy mid 19th century claim.

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• marcos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Assyrians, Persians, Alexander the Great

  Oh. So they didn’t have camels on the time of the meme either. At least not in large numbers.

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The one-humped camel or dromedary (camelus dromedarius, or humpies) is already sporadically attested in the Early Dynastic Period, but it was not regularly used until much later. Foreign conquerors (Assyrians, Persians, Alexander the Great) brought the camel on a greater scale to Egypt. Certainly in the Ptolemaic Period, and perhaps already under the Persians (525-343 BC), the camel (also the two-humped camel, camelus bactrianus, or humpies) was used as main transport animal for the desert.

  FTFY

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