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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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%27Egypte_-_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