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JoeNoble1973 t1_jcf6wo6 wrote

My Egyptian armies captured Dongola in a Medieval wargame I play! Just the other night, in fact. Sorry that’s all i got, very cool discovery!

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nadiaco t1_jcfc47p wrote

Diop was writing about this decades ago. the way ppl think Africans don't know their history. um

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thepotofbasil t1_jcfj4ks wrote

Replying to nadiaco (#2,243,591)

How is that possible? I get that diop discussed these themes, but the article (despite clickbait title) is about a specific recent discovery. Would love a source (genuinely interested)

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r-reading-my-comment t1_jcfl8ua wrote

Replying to nadiaco (#2,243,591)

Do you think someone’s saying Europeans don’t know their history when new Roman settlements are found?

Stop trying to start fires.

Edit: forgot to write that reading the article will also help, that said the you’re also misrepresenting the title.

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Eyes-9 t1_jcgxa9d wrote

Cool find, not too surprising since Egypt is their northern neighbour.

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Strawbuddy t1_jch2llt wrote

Very cool stuff. I read about the Sudanese pharaohs in Natl Geographic years ago, and they keep popping up. I hope they're able to id the stone, as Sudanese pyramids look to be made of black stone locally obtainable

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JoeNoble1973 t1_jch5yb0 wrote

Replying to Krokan62 (#2,247,022)

Like someone mentioned, ‘Stainless Steel’ mod is great. Fractures the map into more and smaller factions, culture-specific units, etc. Makes that grand old game ‘new’ again for you! 👍👍

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a-really-big-muffin t1_jchalom wrote

Interesting, but I guess I'm not sure I'd call this a "huge" discovery? The stones are from a temple that dates to roughly the same time as the Nubians reigning as pharaohs, and if I'd just taken over a country and wanted to prove that I was totally legit, building a temple in my kingdom is an easy way to do it. Unless I misinterpreted the article and the huge part wasn't the existence of the temple, it was the age of it.

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Mister_Red_Bird t1_jchwyvz wrote

Replying to a-really-big-muffin (#2,247,557)

As the article says "no evidence of such early construction activity on the site has been identified so far."

This important because "“This would push back the known history of this city by over 1000 years,” said Dr. Wieczorek."

That seems pretty significant to me.

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