Re: Strange Maths (was Re: Why not 13 months?)
Whittet (Whittet@shore.net)
22 Jul 1995 15:46:43 GMT
In article <mls-2207950023170001@mls.dialup.access.net>, mls@panix.com says...
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>In article <3upsee$a81@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, dezyner@aol.com (Dezyner) wrote
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>+weren't the Great Pyramids constructed before the invention of the wheel?
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>No. Wheels on carts are roughly a thousand years earlier than the pyramids,
>and potters' wheels a thousand years earlier still. That's in Mesopotamia
>rather than Egypt, but Egypt absorbed considerable Mesopotamian influence
>in the pre-dynastic period.
I know of no examples in Egypt which date back to or precede the fourth
Dynasty. Would you care to cite a few? There were also no examples of domestic
draft animals that early in Egypt either.
If you know of some evidence to the contrary I would like to hear about it.
>--
>Michael L. Siemon
Steve
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