What if ancient Egypt persisted today
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Good thing immigrants and climate change helped end their empire!
...but starting with the murder of Ramses III in 1155 B.C., the once-great Egyptian Empire was slowly brought to its knees by a centuries-long drought, economic crises and opportunistic foreign invaders.
Ramses III ruled Egypt for 31 years and is widely considered the last of the “great” pharaohs. His reign coincided with one of the most turbulent and challenging periods in ancient Mediterranean history, known as the invasion of the “Sea Peoples.”
The precise identity of the Sea Peoples is still unknown, but most scholars believe they were an ethnically diverse band of refugees from the western Mediterranean displaced by drought and famine, who came east looking for new lands to conquer and inhabit. Marauding fleets of Sea Peoples may have attacked Egypt at least twice during the reigns of Merenptah and Ramses III.
In 1177 B.C., Ramses III and the Egyptian navy successfully repelled the second massive Sea Peoples invasion, and the pharaoh memorialized the victory on the walls of his temple and tomb complex in Medinet Habu.
But the celebration was short-lived, says Eric Cline, an archaeologist and historian of the Bronze Age, who wrote 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed. Ramses III was able to fight off the Sea Peoples, but not an assassination plot by a jealous secondary queen in his harem. According to CT scans of Ramses III’s mummy, the pharaoh was stabbed through the neck and murdered in 1155 B.C.
“That was the beginning of the end,” says Cline. “After Rameses III, that’s it. Egypt is never the same again.”...
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Egypt must be recognized as a failure of contemporary American conservatives to establish our culture into a thriving society. We colonized them soon after the pyramids were built, but, because contemporary American conservatives can't govern and inevitably collapse, ancient egypt exists today only in history books. It is good to see them brought to life again, as they would have been, if only the contemporary American left had colonized them instead.
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AI will make costume and set designers for movies obsolete…
For that matter, what happens when AI gets access to CGI?
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AI will make costume and set designers for movies obsolete…
For that matter, what happens when AI gets access to CGI?
@LuFins-Dad said in What if ancient Egypt persisted today:
AI will make costume and set designers for movies obsolete…
For that matter, what happens when AI gets access to CGI?
Actually, AI driven commercial product that let you create animated videos with mere text prompts already exist.
For example (and I cite this without endorsing or recommending it): https://hechicer-ia.com/current-anima/
