Egyptians.

[grimsprice]

You know what. It needs to be said every once in a while. The Egyptians were pretty bad ass. And gave the world a great many achievements and technologies... including...

Stone buildings
Pyramids
Cats
Writing
Fucking PAPER PAPYRUS.

Edit: Haha! we have amendments to the list of awesome!!! apparently

Beer!
Drunken-ness-ness?
Orgies!
Supermodels?

Where would the world be without Egypt? Hmmmmmm? Cat-less? I wouldn't want to live there.

there really isn't much discussion here except to dole out praise to the Egyptians. Which you're more than welcome to do. Or you could tell us what you like about Egyptians... or hate. But that would be kinda douchy. Meh, it happens.

 

[Keepitclean]

Egyptian priestesses invented beer. That's a pretty massive achievement. One that I am quite thankful for.

They are also involved in many conspiracy theories. Everybody loves a godd consiracy theory once in a while.

 

[Yoshemo]

The Mayans made stone pyramids around the same time if I remember history class correctly.. so Egypt didn't really invent it, just made it.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Best thing about Egypt was when the Romans kicked their ass. BOO YA! ROMANS!

I kid I kid, we wouldn't have the pyramids lining up with the stars.

 

[Skuffyshootster]

When I was kid I used to have a bunch of Eyewitness books about Egypt.

The one thing that always stood out in my mind was reading that they removed the brain of a corpse by sticking a hook up it's nose and pulling it out.

[small]Now, where'd I put that brain bleach...[/small]

 

[sky14kemea]

They invented the milk bath!

... What? _>

I do like cats though..

 

[cheese_wizington]

The Egyptians had a "Festival of Drunkenness" in which they all got drunk and had sex with eachother.

Therefore they are awesome

 

[CoverYourHead]

Um... their gods look pretty rockin'...

... Um... they hated the Jewish people before it was cool? (I'm so going to hell...)

 

[Wildrow12]

The Egyptians are okay with me!


....except of course when their dead rise up, their booby trapped pyramids shoot pressurized salt at me, and when a CGI pro-wrestler-turned-scorpion comes after my liver.

Other than that, great folks!

 

[grimsprice]

The Mayans made stone pyramids around the same time if I remember history class correctly.. so Egypt didn't really invent it, just made it.

Hmmmm. Thats strange. I heard that the Mayan civilization started about a thousand years after the Egyptians, and they both fallowed a similar curve of development. Which would have put their pyramid building days a millenia after the Egyptians. Bah, who knows.

And who cares! Egyptian pyramids are way cooler than Mayan pyramids. Psh. Those little hut thingies on top. Lol. They look like cakes. Egyptian pyramids are like... TRIANGLES *****.

 

[Souplex]

China invented paper dude.
Egypt realized all of their magical artifacts would doom humanity so they buried all of them and hoped adventurers wouldn't retrieve them.

 

[R Man]

You are correct. Mesoamerican civilizations did not start to build Pyramids for a thousand years or so after the Egyptians started. Then again, people had been in Egypt for thousands of years longer than they had been in America.

Personally I think a lot could be learned by studying the society of these early civilizations.

 

[sexybunnyhump]

yeah only if they had microfish

 

[sexybunnyhump]

and why not egypt CATS warn off EVIL

 

[sexybunnyhump]

i wanna a man whos bald and looks like a pharo EGYPTIAN LOVER

 

[Acier]

The Mayans made stone pyramids around the same time if I remember history class correctly.. so Egypt didn't really invent it, just made it.

Mayans didn't make their s until much later, granted they didn't have any Egyptian or Mesopotamian influence (you're probably thinking of their ziggurats, which were built during circa that era)


Egypt was pretty neat, although their canon of proportion was messed up. But then again I like they Amarna art.

 

[Vitor Goncalves]

egypt invented writing, didnt they?... Ok we dont know if they did, apparently its still disputed between China, Mesopotamia, Egypt and a civilization standing where now is turcmenistan. But the oldest known true alphabet is egyptian.

 

[Pingieking]

It's kind of dishonest to say that they invented writing, since writing was developed independently in a lot of civilizations. Same applies to stone buildings and beer.

And how is cats an Egyptian achievement? Were cats biologically engineered by Egyptians? That would be totally badass!

 

[Saargston]

Um... their gods look pretty rockin'...

... Um... they hated the Jewish people before it was cool? (I'm so going to hell...)

The Egyptians didn't jew anything to the Hebrews, actually. All that stuff about them keeping slaves just wasn't kosher.
The pyramids were actually built by farmers who were working there because the Nile would flood from around June to September every year. If a pyramid was being constructed at this time, the workers would go to build it. (While you might not thing this is exactly swell I could tell you that they were quite Hapi about it, because this cycle was the reason they were able to thrive.) When the pyramid was completed, all of the workers would be dubbed "Friends of the Pharaoh", or something of the like and when they died, they would be buried in the pyramid they helped to build, a grace that would not be given to any slave.

 

[HerrBobo]

The Royalty under the Ptolemy's did a whole bunch of incest loving!