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Ancient Egyptian Civilization is the Greatest, New Intl' Survey


Mon 14 Dec 2020 | 11:59 PM
Yassmine Elsayed

Once again, participants from all over the world emphasized that the ancient Egyptian civilization was the oldest and greatest of human civilizations at the end of a hot race among the civilizations of the ancient world.

The competition, conducted by the "Ancient History Papyrusposting" page interested in ancient history on "Facebook", ended with the ancient Egyptian civilization getting the "championship of civilizations", victorious over 16 ancient civilizations, after a 15-day vote.

A large number of Facebook users interacted on the last vote to choose from the civilization of "ancient Egypt" and the civilization of Rome after they reached the last stage in the survey.

The competition involved ancient civilizations, some of which came from the ancient East, such as: ancient Egypt, Kush, Carthage, family Han in China, Babylon, the Mitanni civilization, and the Persian civilization, and some of them are like the ancient European civilizations, such as: the Etruscan civilization, ancient Greece, and the civilization of Rome.

The page is run by a number of people interested in history from Germany, Denmark, Lithuania, Portugal, and Argentina, according to the information provided by Facebook, and according to the page managers.

They have benefited greatly from the "Championship of Civilizations" survey; The number of followers doubled on the last day and tripled for the duration of the tournament.

After a competition that lasted for 15 days, Egypt and Rome reached the final level, before Egypt then winning the championship of civilizations announced by the page after obtaining 50.15 percent of the votes.

During the vote, the comments witnessed differing opinions in which users explain their views on the choice.

In one of the comments, Karim Magdy, defending his choice of Egypt, said: "Egypt did not commit genocide in its wars." Also in the comments, the Italian "Luca Zemiti" believes that the legacy of Rome in arts, engineering and philosophy is much greater than Egypt in history, while Miyat Ning from Burma said: "I love Rome, but when Caesar visited Egypt, the pyramid of Giza was already 2000 years old. at that time".

One of the other interactions, named "Vlad Tottolici", said that the Roman Empire was very strong, especially from a military point of view, but ancient Egypt derived its strength through science; it was then transmitted to other countries.

Walid Hassan pointed out that the first Egyptian doctor and engineer in the history of mankind is Imhotep. During the Egyptian civilization epoch, Rome was not existing in the first place.