/lit/ - Literature

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>I suggest you read Jan Assman. You lack a modern understanding of ancient Egypt and how it affected the rest of the world.

Egypt is the most overrated ancient civilization purely because it had god tier aesthetic and it's racially ambiguous and authoritarian enough for WE WUZZERS of all shades. The fact that most researchers are sycophants helps.

>almost all their cultural advancement comes from Sumerian, Babylonian or fucking Syrian influence
>divine kings who are all inbred idiots with clubfoot
>people actually think said clubfooted inbreds are the source of their souls
>mass human sacrifice
>bestiality
>no lawcodes
>kings lived in mud brick hovels because they were using all the stone and metal on tombs
>afterlife was a money making scam
>never invented a concept of rationality something that fucking canninbal Tribesman in New Guinea have
>ridiculously prone to instability and disasters, culture survived due to sheer xenophobia and autism
>decadent culture of dandies who waxed everything
>unable to fathom metaphysical concepts beyond the material
>hate Mesopotamian and Levantine cultures out of sheer resentment
>invented proselytizing wars
>first to invent ethical justification for Slavery rather than just 'We won'
>half of the achievements pharaohs record are either stolen, or made up