Home erectus re: 15-3 Anyway no spectacles yet?


Anyway ...

*
In
Mesopotamia
and Egypt
the coming of the Aryans
did not cause
any fundamental changes
until after
600 B.C.

The flight
of the Aegeans
before the Greeks
and even the explosion
of Thera/Santorini
and the destruction of Cnossos
might have seemed
a very remote disturbance
to both the citizens of Egypt
and of Babylon?

Dynasties
came and went
in these cradle states of
civilisation,
but the main tenor of human life
went on,
with a slow increase
in refinement and complexity
age by age
...

In Egypt
the accumulated
monuments of more
ancient times,
- the pyramids were already
in their third thousand of years and
a show for visitors
just as they are
today -,
were supplemented
by fresh and splendid buildings,
more particularly
in the time of the Seventeenth
& Ninenteenth
Dynasties?

The great temples
of Karnak and Luxor
date from
this time
...

All the chief monuments
of Nineveh,
the great temples,
the winged bulls with
human heads,
the reliefs of the kings
and chariots and
lion hunts,
were done in these centuries
between 1600 and
600 B.C.,
and this period also
covers most
of the splendours
of Babylon?
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*

Both
from Mesopotamia and Egypt
we now have abundant public myDi-records,
myDi-businessaccounts,
myDi-stories
and myDi-poetry
and myDi-private
correspondence?

We know that life,
for prosperous and 'influential' people
in such cities as Babylon and
the Egyptian Thebes,
was already almost as refined
and as luxurious as that of
prosperous and comfortable
myDi-people
today?!

SUCH
people lived
an orderly and ceremonious life
in beautiful and beautifully furnished and
decorated houses,
wore richly decorated clothing and
lovely jewels;
they had feasts
and festivals,
entertained one another
with music and dancing,
were waited upon by highly trained
servants {and slaves?!},
were cared for
by doctors
and
dentists.

THEY
did not travel very much
or very far,
but boating excursions
were a common summer pleasure
both on the Nile
and on the
Euphrates
.............

The beast of burden
was the ass {and the slave?!},
the horse was still used only in chariots
for war and upon occasions
of state.

The mule
was still novel and
the camel,
though it was known in
Mesopotamia,
had not been brought yet
into Egypt?

AND
there were still
only a few utensils of iron;
copper and bronze remained
the prevailing
metals.

Fine linen
and cotton fabrics were known
as well as
wool.

But
there was
no silk
yet.

Glass was known
and beautifully coloured,
but glass things were
usually
small.

There was
no clear glass yet and no optical
use of glass?

People had
gold stoppings in their teeth
but no spectacles on
their noses.

And I'm
going to take a break
before I break
down ...

See you
next century,
or at least:
some other time,
some other
place?

Behave
yourselves
as devils or elves,
don't hesitate to BE afraid, happy.
big or small:
enjoy it all
as much as you can
and take care of
each other
and
your
selves?

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