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Space Archaeology

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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Did Writing Originate in Egypt?

i think these early writings are just, they're just brilliant. They're the earliest evidence for which we have writing in egypt. But it wasn't so long after that, just a couple of hundred years, when we had things like curses from the old kingdom written on pots. These magical spells and curses were written by an agitated family member or neighbor to a one of theirm members in the after life. And i want to ask you both if you get a cent of a feel for these people, and and how they lived, and how they behaved deferentely. I enest intrest tet is wonderful letter. This ii. Is three thousand years old. Thatis how

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