Egyptian Archaeology is what fascinates me the most. Their culture and art styles, even their religious practices and how they depicted their gods, awesome stuff. [independent.co.uk]
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I became obsessed with Egypt when I picked up a book about it in 2nd grade (guess I stole the book also, because I found it in an old box a few years back). Unfortunately life through me some big curves and I never got around to finishing college... So I settle with keeping up on articles and watching allot of documentaries ?
PeopleSuck
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May 31, 2018
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I got into because of my time in Graphic Arts (I'm now in healthcare), we had to study their art and I just fell in love with their style. I started to study about ancient Egypt and their culture, religion, even their language. I learned to read hieroglyphs, some of the words anyway. I still have the dictionaries that taught me how to read the language. It was a lot of fun trying to figure this out.
As technology advances, there'll no doubt be further revelations concerning the construction of the pyramids and layout of the necropolis that surrounded them (as, for example, the recent scan that seems to reveal a large void inside the Great Pyramid: [independent.co.uk].
Ancient Egypt is fascinating, although the great majority of the ruins and artifacts left behind by more than thirty dynastic periods are concerned primarily with burial and preparation for the afterlife. It's as if future archaeologists were to be left with only US military bases from which to study life in America.
moNOtheist
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May 30, 2018
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I planned on being am Egyptologist for a number of years, but ultimately went to physics. Partly because I'm not that into history in the last 2000 years. ?
I am more now, but I didn't feel like studying history fit.
SensualAva
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May 29, 2018
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I was not a Physics fan until I had to take it up for my studies in Ultrasound. I always thought that I wouldn't have a mind for it. I surprised myself. Physics is very interesting, but I also thought of Archaeology as a career once, if not Egyptology itself, because I do love history, but I didn't. Can't recall why.
I am most fascinated by Sumerian culture. As far as I know it is the culture closest to the transition from nomadic to agricultural/urban life.
CraeftSmith
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May 29, 2018
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I love their tales, Enki and such. I think they were the first ones to tell stories about a "flood" that was later copied by other religions, but I'm not sure. I'd have to look back into it.
@Georgy303 they did have the first documented story of the gods deciding to destroy humanity by flood.
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