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327 moments · 2020-03-09T00:15:08Z CE – 2026-11-02T20:11:21Z CE · by @athan · @athan

#346 · Video 15 and Short 12: Ancient Egypt

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Part of #336. - **Sample** `publicity/video/samples/egypt.mjs` → `egypt.ochx`: Predynastic Egypt to Cleopatra VII and the Roman province, 92 moments (10 chapter headings), 81 durations (10 periods, 4 Predynastic cultures, 31 dynasties or groups, 33 reigns) and 57 relationships. Periods, dynasties and reigns follow Shaw (ed.), *The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt* (2000), named in the description and every Date precision; dates before 664 BCE are marked approximate. Six day-known dates are placed from their Julian dates, which are kept with Historical dates. Published at https://timescale.info/athan/ancient-egypt. - **Video 15** `publicity/15-tour-ancient-egypt.md` and `publicity/video/15-tour-ancient-egypt/`: a 3:38 tour in the Archive look — the sweep, one named chronology, the pyramid age, Merer's diary, Hatshepsut and Thutmose III, Kadesh and the treaty, the writing thread, the Rosetta Stone, Cleopatra's last years and "closer to the Moon than to the pyramid". - **Short 12** `publicity/shorts/12-closer-to-the-moon.md` and `publicity/video/s12-closer-to-the-moon/`: Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing (1,998 years) than to the Great Pyramid (about 2,536) (0:46). - Indexes: rows only; the counts are updated with whichever of #343 / this merges second. Found along the way: #340 (BCE ruler marks), #341 (duration reader shows no sources).

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