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[10ebbor10]

I'd hardly call that an achievement. That's like accidentally dropping a safe unto a robber, then claiming yourself to be a hero.

Well, it was the first step. Go all the way to Alexandria and you get stuff like the Hippocratic oath and the great library.
Then the dark ages happened.

Which, actually, were'nt as Dark as many people think them to be. Quite a few interesting things were build and destroyed in those periods.

[MrWillsauce]

But that wasn't Egypt advancing on their own. Alexandria was settled by Alexander the Great with his party of Macedonians/Greeks, who brought along Greek culture and philosophy. Also the Dark Ages happened far before the settlement of Alexandria (the Greek ones at least).

[10ebbor10]

But that wasn't Egypt advancing on their own. Alexandria was settled by Alexander the Great with his party of Macedonians/Greeks, who brought along Greek culture and philosophy. Also the Dark Ages happened far before the settlement of Alexandria (the Greek ones at least).

The Egyptians did make quite a lot of advancements. Several have been referred to before.

The most important one is that stacking a giant heap off stone on your grave equals to placing a "Rob me sign"

[Jerick]

Well seeing as how they believed the only purpose of the brain was to produce mucus, and thoughts took place in the heart, I doubt the brain surgery thing.

I believe the tale went as follows.

Important person is attacked by dog, dog bites important person in the head, fracturing the skull. The egyptian surgeon removes the pieces of the skull that got stuck inside the brain.

Then the patient somehow survived.

My understanding was they drilled small holes in people's skulls to relieve pressure resulting from swelling in the brain.
This actualy works and does help the pateint but modern methods of dealing with such things are way better and aren't done with a spoon drill.
From a society that did believe the brain just made mucus that's a big step.

[Flying Dice]

Well seeing as how they believed the only purpose of the brain was to produce mucus, and thoughts took place in the heart, I doubt the brain surgery thing.

I believe the tale went as follows.

Important person is attacked by dog, dog bites important person in the head, fracturing the skull. The egyptian surgeon removes the pieces of the skull that got stuck inside the brain.

Then the patient somehow survived.

My understanding was they drilled small holes in people's skulls to relieve pressure resulting from swelling in the brain.
This actualy works and does help the pateint but modern methods of dealing with such things are way better and aren't done with a spoon drill.
From a society that did believe the brain just made mucus that's a big step.

Yep. Trepanning was and still is a thing, mostly because it works. It's still used regularly today for a few modern surgeries.

[Pnx]

You guys really should keep in mind that ancient Egypt was around for a really, really, really long time, as in three thousand years, by the time western civilization was starting to take it's baby steps, it had lived, flourished, and "died" in a really ridiculous time span. It really went through a lot of changes in beliefs, culture, and practises during that time period.

[Loud Whispers]

Which, actually, were'nt as Dark as many people think them to be. Quite a few interesting things were build and destroyed in those periods.

Dark as in so little was recorded of it

[Flying Dice]

Which, actually, were'nt as Dark as many people think them to be. Quite a few interesting things were build and destroyed in those periods.

Dark as in so little was recorded of it

Also because nobody in Europe bathed except the damned heretics.

[kaijyuu]

Dammed heretic, here. In desperate need of a hair dryer, in fact.

[MrWillsauce]

Does bathing in the blood of virgins count?

[SealyStar]

Does bathing in the blood of virgins count?

No, but feeding them to dragons still counts.

I mean, if you're looking for Satanist street cred or whatever.

[Pnx]

Which, actually, were'nt as Dark as many people think them to be. Quite a few interesting things were build and destroyed in those periods.

Dark as in so little was recorded of it

Also because nobody in Europe bathed except the damned heretics.

Depends which dark ages you're talking about. In the early middle ages people bathed, it was only around the late middle ages until about the beginning of the colonial period that people didn't bathe... During the renaissance when the term "dark ages" was coined, people still didn't bathe, and wouldn't for quite some time.

[Flying Dice]

Which, actually, were'nt as Dark as many people think them to be. Quite a few interesting things were build and destroyed in those periods.

Dark as in so little was recorded of it

Also because nobody in Europe bathed except the damned heretics.

Depends which dark ages you're talking about. In the early middle ages people bathed, it was only around the late middle ages until about the beginning of the colonial period that people didn't bathe... During the renaissance when the term "dark ages" was coined, people still didn't bathe, and wouldn't for quite some time.

Hence the strike-through.

[scriver]

Wrongely so, I dare say! In the Northern Europe, bathing never went out of fashion. Not even when they tried outlawing it. Well, the common folks, that is. Nobles were naaaaasty.

[da_nang]

Wrongely so, I dare say! In the Northern Europe, bathing never went out of fashion. Not even when they tried outlawing it. Well, the common folks, that is. Nobles were naaaaasty.

And as semi-proto-dorfs, we all knew what to do with the nobles.