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Originally Posted by Kenny Twigg
think of it this way; if the Egyptian Empire was the most powerful empire at its time, then what destroyed 70% of the country? If you visit Egypt today, you will find that all of the ancient monuments and villages are in ruins, if there were no armies at that time powerful enough to destroy a whole country then what did?
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When you say that "the Egyptian Empire was the most powerful empire at its time" which time would that be? Are you claiming that it was the most powerful empire in its part of the world all the way from (roughly) 3100BC to the conquest by the Achaemenid empire in the 500s BC?
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Originally Posted by Kenny Twigg
When Egypt was destroyed almost every single tomb in Egypt was stripped of all gold and valuable possessions,
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What makes you think that the tombs where looted at the same time? Actually, what do you mean by "When Egypt was destroyed", are you talking about the Achaemenid conquest? If 70% of the country was destroyed then why did the Persians (and later Alexander) bother to keep it in their empire and how did the Ptolemaic kingdom managed to work?
And what do you mean by "destroyed"? Cities looted and burned or something else? Where is the archeological evidence for that, and how did you date the destruction of every place to the same period in time?