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Oh, son of a bitch …
Fun fact: camels weren’t imported to the Middle East from SE Asia until the mid-19th century. Germany had a professional camel-driven caravan service before Egypt.
Say what
Edit: yeah this is just false. There are mentions of Camels in Egypt for thousands of years before this
my first thought was Camels are arid climate adapted, and S. E. Asia isn’t arid, if central Asia was mentioned for instance, would have been a bit more convincing
I dont think thats true
That is a neat factLook at me blindly reading comments and taking them at face.
The one-humped camel or dromedary (camelus dromedarius) is already sporadically attested in the Early Dynastic Period, but it was not regularly used until much later. Foreign conquerors (Assyrians, Persians, Alexander the Great) brought the camel on a greater scale to Egypt. Certainly in the Ptolemaic Period, and perhaps already under the Persians (525-343 BC), the camel (also the two-humped camel, camelus bactrianus) was used as main transport animal for the desert.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-static/digitalegypt/foodproduction/camel.html
Certainly in the Ptolemaic Period, and perhaps already under the Persians (525-343 BC)
I mean that’s about 2000 years after the great pyramids were built.
But it is also 2500 years before the crazy mid 19th century claim.
Assyrians, Persians, Alexander the Great
Oh. So they didn’t have camels on the time of the meme either. At least not in large numbers.
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