Egyptians Call Their Ancient Civilization By a Different Name

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[holydiver]

"The ancient Italians did not call themselves Italians"

[Electrfleur]

The Egyptians called their country Kemet, literally the "Black Land" (kem meant "black" in ancient Egyptian). The name derived from the colour of the rich and fertile black soil which was due to the annually occurring Nile inundation. So Kemet was the cultivated area along the Nile valley. The deserts on either side of the Nile were called Desheret, the "Red Land" (desher meant "red"), after the reddish colour of the desert sand.
The reason why the country is called Egypt in English (and l'Égypte in French and Ägypten in German) is quite complicated. The name of one of the largest ancient Egyptian temples, of the god Ptah, at Mennufer (Memphis, south-west of modern Cairo), was Hikuptah (this meant "The Soul of the God Ptah"). The name of the temple began to be used for the city itself and because Memphis was so important even for the whole of the country. It became "Aiguptos" in Greek and this then led to "Egypt" in English.

[charliebannon]

2500 years ago, Plato had conversations with Egyptian priests who at that time spoke of 17000 years of Egyptian history. That's 19500 years ago. So many archives were lost in the fire of the Alexandria library

[stonehengemaca]

He looks pretty trust worthy. I'll take his word for it.

[stephansmith]

"when I came away from those early conversations, I immediately had my skeleton coated with adamantium."

[Jethorus]

Remember that ancient Egypt had an ancient Egypt that was longer ago than ancient Egypt is to us today. And the Sphinx was built even before that.

[natakhavan]

I've always had such a fascination with Egypt, the pyramids, even hieroglyphs...even as a very young child. No idea why but I always used to feel such a draw to the pyramids when I was a kid.

[Mac]

If Christopher Walken auditioned for Wolverine role.

[ernestkhalimov]

True
Civilization is definitely older.
Even an sumerian song already mentions ancient times as if you couldn't get more ancient than that.

[earthcoloredeyes]

The ancient Egyptians had their own archeologists, that’s how old the pyramids are.

[khidrrr]

"Why did they name it the World War 1? Pessimistic isn't it? Anticipating more wars." kinda vibe

[abdalrahmanmahmoud]

The egyptian arabs rejects that their ancestors were not there, they archeology leader even banned seminars about a scientists who tracked the ancient egyptin civilization and He even stopped graham to mention his name and left. That archeologist traced it back to chad and sudan. I will try to put it here. The archeologist name is Bauval.

[funkmystar]

If Hugh jackman doesn’t want to be wolverine we got our guy

[gabrielmcguoirk]

“Ancient Native Americans did not refer to themselves as Native Americans”

[trappb]

Just remember that the modern Egyptians are mostly Muslims who migrated to Egypt around 650 AD. These are not the same people from 3000 years ago. Do not leave this out.

[japanmania]

Back in 1995, I had an English teacher who mention this . And this was community college.😂😂😂 his name Professor Shabazz

[rokong]

Dude looks like Wolverine's little brother 😐

[kerryblackburn]

Ancient history is the absolute most interesting topic on this planet no matter the continent you’re on ❤

[grindkingsd]

What’s most astounding to me, is all of the places Mr. Braden has been, and not just him but other great well respected leaders in this community what they’ve done and where they’ve been. But the fact that still remains not one single one of them has read The Lost Book of Enki. I can only imagine where their studies would be right now, if they started on the foundation of this cuneiform writing.

[jackieking]

This makes as much sense as asking me what I think of the origins of the medieval cathedral down the road.