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  1. Oracle of Sobek 𓆋

    In the Light of the Dazzling Aten: An Ancient Egyptian TL

    This might actually be doable if Arzawa is keen on becoming a naval power (how is Uhha-Ziti's relationship with the Lukka-land factions?) that rules inland Anatolia through vassal-kings... But they'll have stiff competition from the Mycenaeans on that front. Anyway, I dig a stronger Arzawa...
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    Weave Hangings for Asherah: An Iron Age Timeline

    Someone's been looking into reconstructed Egyptian pronunciation! Personally I've grown more partial to some kind of /l/ for the original value of <꜒> (hence Old Egyptian *LuΜ„sat for <꜒st>), but the rhotic interpretation is also valid - this is an ongoing debate. That said, by the time this TL...
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    In the Light of the Dazzling Aten: An Ancient Egyptian TL

    Hieratic really only gave rise to Demotic, which in turn contributed a few letters to Coptic and served as the basis for cursive Meroitic. Otherwise early alphabetic scripts derived direct inspiration from Hieroglyphs (except Ugaritic - being cuneiform-based), and the OG of those...
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    AHC One Oghuric Language in 3 Areas

    -Scenario 1- Step 1. The Magyars are completely Oghurized, and remain in *EtelkΓΆz (roughly central-to-west Ukraine) as confederates of a Khazar state. Step 2. Slavic expansions push the Oghur-Magyars south and east across the Dnipro - basically into the Donbas. Migrations and conquests come and...
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    In the Light of the Dazzling Aten: An Ancient Egyptian TL

    Not to be that guy but <αΈ€ryw Rnpt> is the "(which are) Upon the Year" part of <Hrw 5 (djw) αΈ€ryw Rnpt> "the 5 (five) Days Upon the Year". Akhenaten's reforms here are reminding me of a certain 7th century prophet and lawgiver... Some of these changes - notably the ban on slavery for...
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    The Bucolic War (172 - 175 AD) succeeds in restoring an independent Egypt

    Neat! I was not aware of those details... That said, I stand by the broad strokes of my analysis. Early Christianity proved itself very adaptable and slotted neatly into a lot of Mediterranean theological discourse; it'll be near impossible to keep out of the country if Egypt wants to maintain...
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    In the Light of the Dazzling Aten: An Ancient Egyptian TL

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    In the Light of the Dazzling Aten: An Ancient Egyptian TL

    Nice, it's "Illuyanka's Revenge"!
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    The Bucolic War (172 - 175 AD) succeeds in restoring an independent Egypt

    Assuming everything goes right, Rome is riven by internal strife for a generation or two, and Isidorid (?) Egypt prospers... Like @Sarufiyyun pointed out, Isidorid Egypt is part of the broader Hellenized world. That said, it still has a robust native culture at this point... The Egyptian...
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    In the Light of the Dazzling Aten: An Ancient Egyptian TL

    Praise the living Re-Horakhty!
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    Could Akhenaten Been Erased From History

    The stones of Akhenaten's building project were recycled - they were used as filler for other structures. When those buildings fell to ruin and were later reconstructed, archaeologists also rebuilt some of Akhenaten's buildings (at least partially) by figuring out which of the recycled blocks...
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    Survival of the Coptic Language under Ptolemies

    Egyptian (it wasn't quite yet "Coptic") was still a prestigious language in Ptolemaic Egypt. The Ptolemies governed arm-in-arm with the traditional Egyptian priestly class, and while Greek was the primary administrative language of Egyptiote Greeks and the Alexandrian court, business and legal...
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    Hittites pull an ottoman after bronze age collapse

    They have more to overcome than Sea Peoples and Kaskas, or Phrygians for that matter. The late Hittite Empire was very decentralized, with rival dynastic power bases emerging in Tarhuntassa and at Kargamish. This fragmentation was not helped by the droughts, cold snaps, and nigh inevitable...
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    What is the latest you can have Pharaohs ruling Egypt?

    Some post-Roman possibilities include: - a successful Revolt of Isidorus (the "Bucolic War") in the 2nd c. AD. - an alternate outcome Crisis of the Third Century that leaves Zenobia in charge of Egypt, talking up her claims of Ptolemaic descent. - [insert contrived collapse of Roman authority...
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    Underrated Historical States?

    The 25th (Kushite) and 26th (SaΓ―te) dynasties of Egypt. Both presided over periods when Egyptian civilization was culturally dynamic and economically robust. Both had ambitious foreign policies and were tied deeply into cosmopolitan trade networks. Both played very important roles in the...
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    Weave Hangings for Asherah: An Iron Age Timeline

    More like Pa-chad-bast, am I right?
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    WI the New World was uninhabited in 1492?

    The fur trade is probably a non-starter in the short term, actually. European fur traders were middlemen - tiny cogs in a machine built largely on the trade networks and environmental stewardship practices of indigenous peoples. There's a reason most of the descendants of fur traders in my...
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    WI the New World was uninhabited in 1492?

    Colonization goes slower, costlier, and is harder to justify to Old World governments. There are no gold-rich empires to conquer, no locals to trade with or exploit to support nascent colonies, nothing stopping reluctant colonists and escaped enslaved people from fleeing into the wilderness save...
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    What if Ancient Egyptians grew rice?

    These are great points. And I did say demographic changes, not growth necessarily. It's also worth noting the cultural importance of wheat and barley in Egypt relative to their products: bread and beer, the foods believed best-suited as offerings to the dead. From the earliest days a huge...
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    What if Ancient Egyptians grew rice?

    Rice was cultivated in Egypt at least from the Ptolemaic period onward , and it continues to be popular there today; Egypt is the 17th largest global producer of rice - behind Sri Lanka and ahead of South Korea. As an aside, I cook a bit with so-called "Egyptian rice"... It's quite good, similar...
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