What did the ancient Egyptians actually contribute to society?

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

Interesting, i'm not really sure how true this is but they do seem very overrated. I'd like to see someone who knows more about ancient Egypt weigh in on the subject though.

Other than the very cool idea that the first pyramids were built by aliens and that the episode of GI Joe where you saw animated version of the Egyptian Gods it's dull. The literature and art isn't interesting, either. There are no classes for undergrads revolving around Ancient Egyptian literature.

[wvwvw]

You sure? I researched it online, and pretty much every article says beer was invented in Mesopotamia. Anywhere between 12,000 and 5,000 years ago, depending in part on what exactly falls into the definition of beer.

Though there is another viewpoint that beer is as old as 20,000 years old, and thus predates writing. Which would make it pretty much impossible to determine where beer was invented.

But it was Egyptians who introduced it to the rest of the world and the ones who consumed it the most. They preferred to drink beer because the water drawn from the river or some canal, was often polluted.



They even had a Godess of Beer: Tenenit

[Taiguaitiaoghyrmmumin]

I dont know but they certainly didnt starve due to not having potatoes

I dont hate irish people though just to be clear.

Just individuals

[wvwvw]

You sure? I researched it online, and pretty much every article says beer was invented in Mesopotamia. Anywhere between 12,000 and 5,000 years ago, depending on what exactly falls into the definition of beer.

Though there is another viewpoint that beer is as old as 20,000 years old, and thus predates writing. Which would make it pretty much impossible to determine where beer was invented.

And really beer wasn't invented overnight like Coca-Cola was- beer was a drink that slowly evolved from earlier alcoholic drinks that probably tasted really bad.

That's true

The Sumerians had many different words for beer from `sikaru' to `dida' to `ebir' (which meant `beer mug') and regarded the drink as a gift from the gods to promote human happiness and well being. The original brewers were women, the priestesses of Ninkasi, and women brewed beer regularly in the home as part of their preparation of meals. Beer was made from bippar (twice-baked barley bread) which was then fermented and beer brewing was always associated with baking. The famous Alulu beer receipt from the city of Ur in 2050 BCE, however, shows that beer brewing had become commercialized by that time. The tablet acknowledges receipt of 5 Silas of `the best beer' from the brewer Alulu (five Silas being approximately four and a half litres).

Under Babylonian rule, Mesopotamian beer production increased dramatically, became more commercialized, and laws were instituted concerning it. The Babylonians brewed many different kinds of beer and classified them into twenty categories which recorded their various characteristics. Beer became a regular commodity in foreign trade, especially with Egypt, where it was very popular.

[wvwvw]

[Fantomas]

Greeks/Romans- Invented great architecture that is emulated to this very day. Plenty of homes are still built in a Graeco Roman style.

Their architecture is pyramids. I personally find pyramids to be ugly and Graeco-Roman art to be beautiful. And in any case nobody emulates Egyptian architecture like they emulate Greek architecture.

Actually Graeco-Roman early architecture and statues are directly descended from Egyptian ones

Mesopotamians- Brought us civilization, writing,

Our writing originated from Greek and Phoenician ones, which derived in its turn from Egyptian hieroglyphic writing

If you really think about it, 90% of the attention given to ancient Egypt centers around their tombs. They are considered some great civilization on par with Rome, Greece, China, India and Mesopotamia, all because of their fucking tombs. WTF?hieroglyphic writing

Herodotus:

The Egyptians, they said, were the first to discover the solar year, and to portion out its course into twelve parts. They obtained this knowledge from the stars. (To my mind they contrive their year much more cleverly than the Greeks, for these last every other year intercalate a whole month, but the Egyptians, dividing the year into twelve months of thirty days each, add every year a space of five days besides, whereby the circuit of the seasons is made to return with uniformity.) The Egyptians, they went on to affirm, first brought into use the names of the twelve gods, which the Greeks adopted from them; and first erected altars, images, and temples to the gods; and also first engraved upon stone the figures of animals. In most of these cases they proved to me that what they said was true.