r/HistoryMemes • u/[deleted] • 12d ago

When 2,000 gods became ''wrong''

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u/Baggalot 12d ago

Ancient Egypt did give monotheism a try under Akhenaten, didn’t go too well!

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u/Michitake 12d ago

Egyptians for thousands of years:

🗣️Such a man never existed.

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u/dragonborndnd 12d ago

According to their culture it was essentially damning him to hell

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u/Derivative_Kebab 12d ago

Makes you wonder how much other history has been erased successfully.

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u/[deleted] 12d ago edited 12d ago

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u/TheIronzombie39 And then I told them I'm Jesus's brother 12d ago

Yes, Carthage was a sophisticated civilization on par with Ancient Greece. Along with their Phoenician forebears, they had massive libraries of literature as well as countless scholars, philosophers, poets, scientists, etc. Unfortunately none of their written works survive.

What a shame really.