https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/tags/templeofluxor/ Recent content in Templeofluxor on The Singemonkey Hugo en-us Fri, 03 Apr 2020 14:52:11 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2020-04-03-huge-throwback-to-when-africans/ Fri, 03 Apr 2020 14:52:11 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2020-04-03-huge-throwback-to-when-africans/ <p>Huge throwback to when Africans had the most sophisticated society on the entire planet. If I remember, these columns are at the temple in Luxor built about 3400 years ago while Europeans lived in holes and thought fire-hardened sticks were pretty rad technology. Not just Egypt, this sophisticated society was also shared by the Sudanese empire of Kush. There are dozens of little-known pyramids in Sudan. But unfortunately of the two dictatorships, Sudan is the harder one to visit - and also the one that&rsquo;s taken stronger steps towards democracy (probably because, unlike in Egypt, the dictatorship wasn&rsquo;t massively supported by millions of US dollars and tons of US military equipment). I wasn&rsquo;t strongly aware when I was in Egypt in 2000 the role of the world&rsquo;s democracies in propping up Hosni Mubarak as they now do el-Sisi after paying lip-service to the democratic movement he crushed.</p>