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minus-squarevoid@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 years agoI don’t understand why people think it looked like that 4000y ago… The closest settlement, Giza, looked like this in 1800 CE (!): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Description_de_l'Egypte_-_Etat_Moderne_-_Pl_16.jpg You can look on a map how far it is to the pyramids from there… Edit: ugh, link is broken. 🙄 Scroll down to history here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giza
I don’t understand why people think it looked like that 4000y ago…
The closest settlement, Giza, looked like this in 1800 CE (!): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Description_de_l'Egypte_-_Etat_Moderne_-_Pl_16.jpg
You can look on a map how far it is to the pyramids from there…
Edit: ugh, link is broken. 🙄 Scroll down to history here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giza