Jumping to Conclusions

Post by **Minimalist** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 11:16 am

on the basis of a few statuettes?

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/931/he11.htm

Now, thanks to the Polish discoveries, it is fairly certain that there were indeed two predynastic capitals of Upper and Lower Egypt, but that far from being rival and hostile regions as suggested in mythological tradition they may have been culturally and politically united for a long period of time. Also significant is that the incentive behind unification may have been trade .

E.P. Grondine · Post by **E.P. Grondine** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 6:10 pm

Hi Min -

For the unification itself, you probably want to read my commentary on
"The Book of the Celestial Cow".

Whatever relations were before 3,111 BCE, the effects of an encounter with
Comet Encke changed them.

Ed

Post by **Minimalist** » Sat Jan 31, 2009 1:55 pm

I thought Encke was still around....every couple of years or so.

E.P. Grondine · Post by **E.P. Grondine** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 10:18 am

Minimalist wrote:I thought Encke was still around....every couple of years or so.

A few small parts of Comet Encke are left and present no hazard. It is suspected by some that the Tunguska impact was one of the last remaining fragments of Comet Encke to hit.

Ed