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Any Egyptologists confirm? (piefed.cdn.blahaj.zone)
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[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 37 points 1 week ago

Also crazy is that the thing that brought down the Old Kingdom around 2180 BCE, after nearly a millennia in power, was a megadrought thanks to a climatic change. It took them about 140 years to reboot things into the Middle Kingdom.