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Re:Egypt's Pyramids May Have Been Built on a Long-Lost Branc... by sidewndr46 on Thursday May 16, 2024 @12:48PM (#40380461)
So the writing is found in the same area, but may be from a much later civilization?
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Re:Egypt's Pyramids May Have Been Built on a Long-Lost Branc... by danparsonson on Thursday May 16, 2024 @05:34PM (#40383517)
That's the idea - settlements are usually built in favourable areas (e.g. next to rivers) so the same site may be continuously inhabited or repeatedly reinhabited over very long periods of history.
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