The more we find out about ancient civilizations, the more that the modern potrayal of them seems innacurate. Even in Neolithic times, there seem to have been nations, or at least city states, as "civilized" as our own. Cro-Magnons have been proven to have had fashion, neanderthals played music on flutes, there's even a case for brain surgery during the ice age. the civilizations of ancient times were far different from ours, and so was the technology. But the more we learn, the more we have to discard the old notions of loin cloths, empty rituals, ignorance of the universe, and the lack of sophisticated society when talking about ancient mankind.
A recent Discovery Channel program put forth the theory, with some good circumstancial evidence to prove it, that the pyramids were painted with advertisements like billboards. It may be that if we could walk into the ancient Egypt of 3000+ years ago, much of it would seem more like an alien metropolis than a primitive unsophisticated society.
Recently, they've even discovered that the ancient Egyptians used prosthetic toes! It's probable that they used prosthetic limbs as well. Here's an interesting article to check out:
Egypt Toe
2 comments:
I find it all amazing how the art of the Egyptians were so full of communication. It's such a mystery-and even how they made the pyramids. Some say that "aliens" made it for them----totally out there, (bad pun) but nevertheless, fascinating to think that they didn't have any means to build it with.
So much we have to learn from our past, huh?
Definitely. Although I have some links on the blog to authors who champion the "aliens made them" perspective, I'm not a proponent of those theories. I mean, it's possible, but not needed to explain it. Homo sapien had 150,000 years before the "dawn of civilization" to come up with technology, and most of what was hospitable to mankind was swallowed by the sea 11,600 years ago. If we did it in 5,000 years, they could have done it seventy five times over, and all evidence of it would most probably have been wiped out. Well, not all evidence....
Thanks for the food-for-thought, Deb! Got my cogs turnin'.
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