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It's not a pyramid scheme, it's a pyramid-shaped scheme (files.catbox.moe)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Tangentially, shout out to Dominic Perry's History of Egypt podcast. Great stuff, very engaging without forgetting that history is an evolving and ever-incomplete field of study, and that things other than battles happened in the ancient world.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It took me way too long (into my adult years) to figure out that an Egyptologist is an archaeologist who specializes in ancient Egyptian cultural artifacts.