Kaytee posted:

Baz posted:

Rocking Ros posted:

the diseases in those tombs

Yes ...not to mention the curses ...

They were probably the diseases rife down there

yes

Baz posted:

We will be soooooo edumacated after all this though  

We'll be at degree standard 😂

Here come the Greeks 

Kaytee posted:

Baz posted:

We will be soooooo edumacated after all this though  

We'll be at degree standard 😂

Yes 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Baz posted:

Here come the Greeks 

Another Tut 

Baz posted:

Here come the Greeks 

They got everywhere 

Kaytee posted:

Baz posted:

Here come the Greeks 

They got everywhere 

Yes 

Kaytee posted:

Baz posted:

Here come the Greeks 

They got everywhere 

yes

Hard enough with gps ...must have been very clever to do it in those days 

must have been strong and ambitious

Baz posted:

Hard enough with gps ...must have been very clever to do it in those days 

yes

Rocking Ros posted:

must have been strong and ambitious

Very 

Baz posted:

Hard enough with gps ...must have been very clever to do it in those days 

They had compasses...they also used the sun and its position in the sky, clever lot those Greeks 😂

Rocking Ros posted:

must have been strong and ambitious

And gay, he was quite slightly built too

Kaytee posted:

Baz posted:

Hard enough with gps ...must have been very clever to do it in those days 

They had compasses...they also used the sun and its position in the sky, clever lot those Greeks 😂

yes Greeks Romans and Egyptians -all clever peeps

Kaytee posted:

Baz posted:

Hard enough with gps ...must have been very clever to do it in those days 

They had compasses...they also used the sun and its position in the sky, clever lot those Greeks 😂

True 🤣🤣🤣

Rocking Ros posted:

Kaytee posted:

Baz posted:

Hard enough with gps ...must have been very clever to do it in those days 

They had compasses...they also used the sun and its position in the sky, clever lot those Greeks 😂

yes Greeks Romans and Egyptians -all clever peeps

Kaytee posted:

Rocking Ros posted:

must have been strong and ambitious

And gay, he was quite slightly built too

Was he ....

Baz posted:

Kaytee posted:

Rocking Ros posted:

must have been strong and ambitious

And gay, he was quite slightly built too

Was he ....

Definitely gay,although he had a girlfriend as well as boyfriend...and was supposed to be quite slender,although you can never say anything for definite 

Kaytee posted:

Baz posted:

Kaytee posted:

Rocking Ros posted:

must have been strong and ambitious

And gay, he was quite slightly built too

Was he ....

Definitely gay,although he had a girlfriend as well as boyfriend...and was supposed to be quite slender,although you can never say anything for definite 

wow - or bi although prob had to have  a GF in those days

Kaytee posted:

Baz posted:

Kaytee posted:

Rocking Ros posted:

must have been strong and ambitious

And gay, he was quite slightly built too

Was he ....

Definitely gay,although he had a girlfriend as well as boyfriend...and was supposed to be quite slender,although you can never say anything for definite 

Baz posted:

Kaytee posted:

Baz posted:

Hard enough with gps ...must have been very clever to do it in those days 

They had compasses...they also used the sun and its position in the sky, clever lot those Greeks 😂

True 🤣🤣🤣

very clever

Oh I remember about Ptolemy

I did Ancient History at A level, but everything written about Alexander comes a lot later and is biased one way or the other

wonder if his mystery illness was poisoning-not found his body

Memphis 

Rocking Ros posted:

wonder if his mystery illness was poisoning-not found his body

There has been speculation about it Ros 

Baz posted:

Rocking Ros posted:

wonder if his mystery illness was poisoning-not found his body

There has been speculation about it Ros 

oh !!-not surprised

Baz posted:

Oh I remember about Ptolemy

Yes 😂

Baz posted:

Rocking Ros posted:

wonder if his mystery illness was poisoning-not found his body

There has been speculation about it Ros 

.....he was only around thirty when he died...give or take a couple of years 

Kaytee posted:

I did Ancient History at A level, but everything written about Alexander comes a lot later and is biased one way or the other

I did American and European  at A level- Ancient  history sounds way more interesting and yes Alexander seems an anomaly  somehow

Kaytee posted:

Baz posted:

Rocking Ros posted:

wonder if his mystery illness was poisoning-not found his body

There has been speculation about it Ros 

.....he was only around thirty when he died...give or take a couple of years 

hmmm mystery illness stinks

Rocking Ros posted:

Kaytee posted:

I did Ancient History at A level, but everything written about Alexander comes a lot later and is biased one way or the other

I did American and European  at A level- Ancient  history sounds way more interesting and yes Alexander seems an anomaly  somehow

I only did British at grammar school ...and Greek Mythology .....but .American and British at uni ....

Rocking Ros posted:

Kaytee posted:

I did Ancient History at A level, but everything written about Alexander comes a lot later and is biased one way or the other

I did American and European  at A level- Ancient  history sounds way more interesting and yes Alexander seems an anomaly  somehow

I did normal history too, but chose Ancient because you don't have to be precise about the dates😂

Baz posted:

Rocking Ros posted:

Kaytee posted:

I did Ancient History at A level, but everything written about Alexander comes a lot later and is biased one way or the other

I did American and European  at A level- Ancient  history sounds way more interesting and yes Alexander seems an anomaly  somehow

I only did British at grammar school ...and Greek Mythology .....but .American and British at uni ....

did agricultural and industrial revs for O level -enjoyed that

Baz posted:

Rocking Ros posted:

Kaytee posted:

I did Ancient History at A level, but everything written about Alexander comes a lot later and is biased one way or the other

I did American and European  at A level- Ancient  history sounds way more interesting and yes Alexander seems an anomaly  somehow

I only did British at grammar school ...and Greek Mythology .....but .American and British at uni ....

I did British jointly with Social and Economic at uni, so there was a lot of US and European involved in the latter

Kaytee posted:

Rocking Ros posted:

Kaytee posted:

I did Ancient History at A level, but everything written about Alexander comes a lot later and is biased one way or the other

I did American and European  at A level- Ancient  history sounds way more interesting and yes Alexander seems an anomaly  somehow

I did normal history too, but chose Ancient because you don't have to be precise about the dates😂

 good choice

I wonder if the canal programme is worth a go?

Rocking Ros posted:

Baz posted:

Rocking Ros posted:

Kaytee posted:

I did Ancient History at A level, but everything written about Alexander comes a lot later and is biased one way or the other

I did American and European  at A level- Ancient  history sounds way more interesting and yes Alexander seems an anomaly  somehow

I only did British at grammar school ...and Greek Mythology .....but .American and British at uni ....

did agricultural and industrial revs for O level -enjoyed that

O level for me was 1870 to 1914.....all political