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convolutedThinker t1_j3r6dzb wrote

Reply to comment by faithfoliage in Deciphering ancient texts with modern tools, Michael Langlois challenges what we know about the Dead Sea Scrolls and biblical archaeology by MeatballDom

I listened to a lecture once where the professor said that the Egyptians didn’t record their losses. You knew that a war was going badly when the recorded victories were becoming closer and closer to the capital.

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