Saturday, November 12, 2016

The ancient EGYPTIAN civilization and technology “SPIKE” - a monumental enigma

What came to spark the stratospheric rise of ancient Egyptian civilization?

From a land and age of mysteries, this for me is still the greatest enigma of all.


How did an ancient agrarian society suddenly flower into technological mastery – the Egyptian dynastic civilization suddenly arriving fully formed it seems, employing advanced writing, architecture and sculpture, producing the first great buildings in stone, medicine, astronomy, mathematics, mummification...

Is the 'spike' the most intriguing mystery of all?

Like my fictional alternative Egyptologist Anson Hunter, I am not a great fan of Atlantean influencers. 



If they existed, the Egyptians, assiduous record keepers, were exceedingly ungrateful about their benefactors, leaving not a jot of thanks.



Yet there stands the Great Pyramid and other achievements with all their dizzying external and internal symmetries... perplexing Egyptology (and inspiring fantasy sci-fi fiction like this novel on Amazon Kindle).