Want yet another fun fact? All the most famous egyptian pyramids were built in a span of 100 years or so.
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They blew their retirement savings and their heirs couldn't afford to build more!
Pyramid building was serious society-stabilizing policy, not government-breaking waste.
Fashion is ephemeral by nature.
Being in the same place doesn't make it the same civilisation. Cleopatra was more similar to the ancient Greeks than the ancient Egyptians
An unbroken span of time with the same name and identity makes it the same civilization. It isn't like countries stopped being themselves due to an industrial revolution.
That identity was gone by Cleopatra's time. By a couple of centuries.
What actually doesn't change the numbers a lot. In fact, it changes them less than the rounding the OP did. But there were a couple of other deep changes like that.
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Yes. Ramses II's son "found in Thebes" (Khaemweset) was known and recorded for his passion in archeological study and restoration, and has been called the "first Egyptologist."
Sumeria Jones.
What's his job during winter?
College professor. 90% of all archeology is done in your local papyrus repository.
This is true for all ancient civilisations though. Maya, Sumer, India, China. All had ancient and ancient ancient.
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