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Re:Younger Dryas cosmic impact of 12,800 years ago (2018) by ncmncm on Thursday June 16, 2022 @10:52PM (#31773658)
An Egyptian expedition sailed all the way around Africa, starting at the Red Sea and returning via the South Atlantic, taking three years. They reported the sun on their right as they rounded the Cape, which was taken as proof of fabrication, to the ancients.

Egyptians achieved a great many impressive things, over millennia, the overwhelming majority of which we have little or no record of.

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Re:Younger Dryas cosmic impact of 12,800 years ago (2018) by simonh on Friday June 17, 2022 @04:35AM (#31775571)
That was a Phoenician expedition recorded by the Egyptians.
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Re:Younger Dryas cosmic impact of 12,800 years ago (2018) by ncmncm on Saturday June 18, 2022 @10:54PM (#31795717)
I am corrected. ISTR the expedition was funded or instigated by a pharaoh, but could be hallucinating.

A whole mess of authentic Egyptian hieroglyphs were found carved in rock faces in Australia, a few decades back. They were recently examined and translated by an expert in ancient Egyptian language. They turn out to describe the disastrous end of a big expedition a bit over 2000 years ago. Some of the symbols used entered dictionaries only a few years ago, so they are unquestionably authentic.

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