07-02-2011, 09:36 PM
(07-02-2011, 06:37 PM)Lady Cop Wrote: Clad, when i was a little girl i was fixated on ancient Egyptian lore and legends and history. it was so mystical and spooky on another level. i still like to read about their beliefs. when 'Cleopatra' came to the movies i was the first one in line! it was a long phase, followed by other obsessions.
so i enjoy reading your posts.
I know fairly little about the later people and they are much better understood by egyptologists than the ancients. My obsession is new, a mere 5 years now.
By the time of Cleopatra very little about the pyramid building age was remembered. The priests probably could have put it all together if they worked on it but many key ideas were lost and they couldn't read the ancient writings. They related what they did know to the Greeks who butchered the history and adopted much of it as their own. Manetho was probably the last man who might have understood pyramid building but it appears he wrote very little on the subject and all of his important writings are utterly lost except a few quotes from other authors and his kings list.