Wisdom of the ancients

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• finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Oh, son of a bitch …

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• PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fun fact: camels weren’t imported to the Middle East from SE Asia until the mid-19th century. Germany had a professional camel-driven caravan service before Egypt.

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  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Say what

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    • expatriado@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      my first thought was Camels are arid climate adapted, and S. E. Asia isn’t arid, if central Asia was mentioned for instance, would have been a bit more convincing

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    • PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I dont think thats true

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  • cannedtuna@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That is a neat fact

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    • 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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    • 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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  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    [citations needed]

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