What was so great about the ancient Egyptians

Am I the only person who finds them ridiculously overrated?

The Harrapans in India had sewers and running water at the same time ancient Egypt was around. The motto of ancient Egypt should be "We Wuz Building Useless Triangles while India wuz building sewers."

By almost any reasonable standard Egypt was by far the least important of the 4 river valley civilizations (China, India, Mesopotamia and Egypt), yet they get more attention and respect than the other 3 do. If you look up India inventions and China inventions, you can find extensive lists online. On the other hand, all Egypt contributed was tombs. I mean, seriously, Egypt is the only civilization that gets its own team of archaeologists. There isn't even such thing as a Romanologist or a Greekologist, but there is such thing as an Egyptologist. WTF?

I was actually reading a thread on Historum about whether or not Egypt is overrated. Most of the posters said no Egypt is not overrated. But when they were asked what Egypt contributed, they basically went crickets and ignored the question. (Except for one guy who inexplicably contributed the invention of decimals to Egypt, even though a quick google search reveals that decimals were invented in Europe just 500 years ago.) And, get this, one of the guys on the thread was a professional Egyptologist. Somewhat needless to say he kept mocking everybody who said Egypt was overrated. But even he was incapable of explaining what Egypt contributed.

All Egypt did was build some useless triangles that served no purpose whatsoever.

So nobody on here seems to be capable of naming their achievements either?

Al Sharpton: "We taught philosophy and astrology [sic] and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it."

What philosophy and science and math was Sharpton talking about? What Mesopotamia had invented?

They built pyramids.

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My ancestors were from Egypt man we wuz kangz and shit

The pyramids are actually really complex and we couldn't recreate them with modern technology if we even tried. Nobody in (((mainstream))) archaeology even knows what they are for. A lot of shit is covered up and flat-out just not talked about. The temples in Egypt are some super powerful shit.

We could definitely build pyramid today. The idea that we couldn't build them is a joke

U mad hwitye op?

You're full of shit OP, the pyramids are so complex you don't even understand. Graham Hancock wrote "Fingerprints of the Gods" its > 500 pages of just how complex the pyramids are

Even granting that the pyramids are architectural achievements for their time period (although they really aren't as impressive as commonly believed), what practical purpose did pyramids serve?

I mean seriously a fucking tomb? So practical. I find them to be a little ugly looking to be quite honest. The Native Americans at least made their pyramids a bit more aesthetically pleasing.

They let blacks in (nubians).
Then they failed and disappeared from the planet, forever.

Moral of the story?
Hmmmmm....

The ongoing bias towards the Egyptian civilization is probably just the lingering effects of the fact that for Europeans, for centuries, Egypt was the most ancient civilization known.

Sumer was clearly much more important, but when the foundational myths of European civilization were being laid down nobody knew that Sumer had existed.

Harappa and Mahenjo-Daro were unknown for even longer.

And ancient China was an undifferentiated time-blob to Europeans. 17th - 20th century China was alien enough to make it unnecessary for people to be fascinated with ancient China. Pure old regular China was foreign enough.

To give you an idea of how deeply the idea of Egypt being synonymous with antiquity is in the western mind: fucking Alexander the Great considered Egypt an incredibly mysterious ancient civilization. There were con men in Caesar's Rome selling people fake Egyptian antiquities and pretending to have ancient forgotten religious powers from understanding the Pyramids. That's how far back the BS goes.

>I find them to be a little ugly looking to be quite honest.

At the time of their construction they were sheathed in white limestone pavers.

It was probably quite striking.

You're right that they're totally fucking useless, though.

A certain type of academic likes that, though. Particularly the British and French faux-aristocratic academics of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Your civilization excelled at building things for commerce and industry? YOU FUCKING PLEB. Your civilization poured limitless resources into building useless shit to gratify the ego of a dynast? SUCH BREEDING. SUCH GRANDEUR.

>WE wuz building sewers and SHEIT
new poos motto

>You're full of shit OP, the pyramids are so complex you don't even understand.

At the end of the day they're very large piles of rocks.

They're a historical curiosity, but all the supposed symbolism and numerology and the rest of it is warmed-over mysticism that's even more useless than the Pyramids themselves.

>new poos motto

That's a good point. Why did they invent sewers and then promptly forget them?

It's like finding out that ancient India made the greatest hamburgers ever known. What the fuck happened, dudes?

The Ancient Egyptian civilization is in ruin because niggers took over and drove it into the dirt.
Now you're all mix raced mongrels who wear the Englishman's suit and tie, what's to be mad about? You're all poor as fuck,

>What was so great about the ancient Egyptians
dey wuz afrikan KANGZ, whiteboi

>There isn't even such thing as a Romanologist or a Greekologist, but there is such thing as an Egyptologist. WTF?

Yes there are, they're called classicists, you fucking idiot.

>burger education

Every time.

Oh, and if you want achievements - Egyptians invented the calender you're using now. The Roman borrowed it from them. Also, hieroglyphs directly inspired the Alphabet.

>By almost any reasonable standard Egypt was by far the least important of the 4 river valley civilizations (China, India

>China
>India
>important

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