Ancient Egypt

Egypt is overrated

>>1599941
thanks for stopping by

>>1599941
*Undettated

I really like Egyptian themed porn. The makeup on the Cleopatra actress usually makes me rock hard.

I only know a tiny bit about Egyptian art specifically, but I really love the tiny funerary diaramas from the first part of the New Kingdom. They look so lively and interesting.

>>1599952
Can you recommend any? Gf is out of town and I need some distraction.

>>1599968
mostly Italians are into this shit, but their movies are way too long. Just search "Cleopatra porn" and it will give out the list. I only like when they use era themed, or what looks like it the right era, accessories.

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What were Ancient Egyptian armies like? I'm guessing not much armour. What kind of weapons did they use? Were they conscript armies or volunteers?

>>1600029
They had... Halberds?

>>1600029
They used foreign mercenaries pretty often

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>>1599852

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>>1599852
>tfw the ancient Egyptian language has a modern descendant but almost no one in Egypt speaks it now
How could this happen? Why couldn't the Muslim Egyptians preserve Coptic like the Persians did with their language?

>>1600129
Arabs

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>>1600160
Explain Persia, then.

>>1600167
Persians

>>1600038
Epsilon Axes
>>1600029
From what I can remember: the Middle and New Kingdom had a very tiny standing army of military classmen who fought for pay. Professionals basically. The Chariotry meanwhile was manned by the aristocracy.

The mass of infantry however consisted of conscripted commoners and volunteered. Press gangs existed as well, as per the Hittite/Egyptian wars.

Since native Egyptian infantry is crap, Egyptians hired a shitload of mercs. Two of the most common and celebrated ones were the Nubians and various Asiatics collectively known as "Maryannu." These two cunts lived in very violent areas (Nubian Kingdoms, the Levant) and were peerless warriors in the region because of this. They were expected to be the bullwark to take the brunt of an infantry shitfight for the relatively weak conscripted infantry.

>>1600181
Persia was conquered by Arabs.

>>1600186
Not settled by.

>>1600186
Ever since the Achaemenid period, Arabs took a lot of cultural cues from the Persians. Sharia, for example, has bits of the Persian Circle of Equity concept.

In addition, a lot of the learned men were Persia and babbled in Iranic languages.

But a really powerful contributor were the Turkic invaders, who weakened the Abbasid Caliphate and created princelings all over its corpse. Turkics looked up to Persianate Culture and used it as a court language.

Just look up what consisted of court language in the Ottoman and Mughal Empires. Its neither Turkic nor Hindu, its Persian

They were beurocratic af

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>>1600407
Waz

>>1600414
Kanz

Were ancient Egyptians one ethnic group or a variety of groups with a common culture?

>>1600029
Lots of charioteers and spear men.

>>1601626
They mostly looked like the sort of people you see in modern Egypt. But it's true that Egypt was multi-cultural to some extent. There were Nubian pharaohs along with other North African groups and travelers from the Levant were common.

By the time of the Roman Empire Egypt was basically Hellenized and the idea of an ethnic Egyptian was not as important.

>>1601626

Variety of groups

In the 18th century, Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de Volney, wrote "The Copts are the proper representatives of the Ancient Egyptians" due to their "jaundiced and fumed skin, which is neither Greek, Negro nor Arab, their full faces, their puffy eyes, their crushed noses, and their thick lips ... the ancient Egyptians were true negroes of the same type as all native born Africans."

HOWEVER, we must also take into account the various ethnicites that occupied them.

Greeks, Arabs, Nubians, all had there periods within Egypt.

Egyptians were multi-ethnic, but were united under one major set of ideas.

I fucking love learning about economic activity. Anyone got any interesting information on that?

>>1602943
Not multicultural

Nubians & nearby Libyans were thoroughly egyptianized in culture
>>1602946
Copts and Muslim egyptians are basically the same

While Copts have a bit of greek admixture, muslims have equivalent arab admixture

That is to say, not much at all

>>1599852

Recently, I made a very detailed study of the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, which is a lengthy and intriguing historical record of ancient Egpytian mathematics. My interest in doing this has been to learn a bit more about the history of mathematics - both aspects of that phrase.

To complete the project, I recently did a massive overhaul of the wiki, adding most of the bottom stuff, especially the "content" section. If anyone would be interested in seriously reading it or skimming through it, I would appreciate readers. The long "content" section is all me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhind_Mathematical_Papyrus

The document dates around the end of the middle kingdom, and the beginning of the second intermediary period. using this one primary document as a data point, I've come to a few tentative conclusions:

Learned Egyptians (or at least, this one scribe) were great at doing arithmetic with fractions. They had enough number sense to do this to a high degree of precision. Furthermore, they were very good at dimensional analysis, which is how you convert among various units of measurement.

Egyptian math scratched the surface of both number theory and trigonometry, due to the rather famous meme "pyramid" problems, which are real historical items. I now like to think that they were doing "primordial" versions of both, but not really doing either one as-such.

However, their failings were threefold: they were obsessed with Egyptian fractional representation of numbers, which is incredibly tedious and inefficient, since what you usually want when doing arithmetic with fracitons in modern terms is to find common denominators. It's not that Egyptians couldn't do this, but they insisted on expressing a final answer in terms with multiple uncommon denominators, a tedium. Second, they (the scribe anyway) seem to have the right ideas about certain geometric rules, but they frequently get confused concerning such, in the present document anyway.

>>1603057
I meant multi-ethnic, my bad.

>>1603132
Oh neat find

>>1603132
You are doing God's work, Anon! We need more people like you on this board!

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>>1599968
Different anon here, my favourites

>http://www.xvideos.com/video9927/belladonna_egyptian_slut
>http://www.xvideos.com/video9190354/gorgeous_egyptian_queen_hoovering_cock

Good taste btw

Who is your favorite Egyptian God/Goddess??

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>>1599852
But what about predynastic?

>>1605226
>http://www.xvideos.com/video9190354/gorgeous_egyptian_queen_hoovering_cock
what the actual fuck is this sound editing

>>1603132

The third failing (I ran out of room and went to bed) from a mathematical point of view (as opposed to a historical one) is that the Egyptians were overwhelmingly concerned with practical problems. Although I do agree somewhat with Chace that the Egyptian mathematician did have certain theoretical interests, they remain primordial at best. There's enough "different stuff" going on in the papyrus to keep it interesting, but the literal context is almost exclusively "story problem - story problem - story problem", which can get tedious.

Offer is still open for an anon to read the above described item and give feedback.

>>1603132
I'd honestly fuck you if I were a pretty girl. Smart people like you deserve hoards of vagina.

>>1606218
Oh and I forgot to mention that the comments in the second link I posted are pretty much a copypasta of a "/his/ vs /pol/" shitposting duel about egyptians being black or white. I think the same video can be found on some more websites and their comment sections are all about the same subject. I advise you to check it out.

>>1606218
Mainstream normie tier: Anubis, but that's because of The Mummy Returns. The idea of a god having an army of undead jackalmen warriors is pretty fucking neat.

>>1606628
[Smooching noises]

>>1606666
Is all 3dpd porn like that? I've never watched any.

>>1606654

unfortunately, women aren't actually wired that way, a bloo bloo bloo.

Also: The Egyptian Mathematical Leather Roll is easy to translate for yourself if you have a cheat sheet (easy to find). I up'd a picture of it to wiki as well, where previously none had existed (although it already had an article).

>>1606682
Nah, just a few hilarious gems. As a matter of fact, there rarely are kissing scenes in porn clips.

>3dpd

What's your choice? Not gonna judge, of course?

>>1606821
Could you link us to the article you wrote?

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>>1599852

They had a goddess of blazing it 420 all day e'rry day.

>>1606939

I wrote

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhind_Mathematical_Papyrus#Content

in its entirety. also the above note about "unit concordance".

>>1599952
>tfw furries are your primary resource for this

bump for Ra

>>1607601
>"Only dumb assholes may sit in this box"

>>1599852
WE WUZ KANGZ N SHIET

>>1611668
Lol did you make that up? I get it :)