Comment on Wisdom of the ancients

• zaphod@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• marcos@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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