This is perhaps says more about the worldview of modern Western scholars who “rediscovered” Egypt in the early Nineteenth Century. Fascinating, alluring, gorgeous, but a cul-de-sac nonetheless. 345 and not a god amongst them.Įgyptian art is often read as a cultural cul-de-sac. He takes the historian to a room full of wooden statues of earlier Priests. He traced his forebears back to sixteen generations. Hecateus claimed to be the distant descendant of a god. He was discussing lineages with an Aegyptian Priest in Thebes. Herodutus tells a story about Hecateus, a Greek historian. Egypt is the source of all the world’s culture.
