RE: Ancient Eqyptian Quiz
May 30, 2016 at 11:59 pm
(This post was last modified: May 31, 2016 at 12:02 am by Anomalocaris.)
Hatshepsut's mortuary temple is perhaps the most distinctively elegant building from ancient Egypt that we know of. So someone with just slightly more than passing interest in ancient Egypt ought to know it.
Moses might be fiction, but the story is critical to Egyptology anyway because that story, directly or indirectly, made ancient Egypt both the earliest ancient civilization outside of Greece and Rome to be seriously studied with modern archeology, and hold a special interest to the public early on. This is why ancient Egypt is more deep rooted in modern popular culture than perhaps any other ancient civilization, including possibly even Greece and Rome.
There is no accounting for why the names of cleopatra' hand maiden is of any interest. One might as well ask for the name of the emptier of Tutmose III's spittoon. Also, I don't really consider Ptolemaic dynasty really Egyptian, or cleopatra in any way the last pharoah. That boat sailed centuries before Rex Harrison unrolled the carpet.
Moses might be fiction, but the story is critical to Egyptology anyway because that story, directly or indirectly, made ancient Egypt both the earliest ancient civilization outside of Greece and Rome to be seriously studied with modern archeology, and hold a special interest to the public early on. This is why ancient Egypt is more deep rooted in modern popular culture than perhaps any other ancient civilization, including possibly even Greece and Rome.
There is no accounting for why the names of cleopatra' hand maiden is of any interest. One might as well ask for the name of the emptier of Tutmose III's spittoon. Also, I don't really consider Ptolemaic dynasty really Egyptian, or cleopatra in any way the last pharoah. That boat sailed centuries before Rex Harrison unrolled the carpet.
