Get Real! wrote:The great pharaohs of Egypt make no mention of Greece or Greeks in their hieroglyphics whatsoever (neither does the Old Testament), yet there are plenty of references to Egyptian trade with the kingdom of Cyprus!
That's because Egypt is closer to Cyprus - so that is the first port of call.
Some of the greatest pharaohs were even Greek!
"The Rosetta Stone, which is housed in the British Museum, is a black, possibly basalt slab with three languages on it (Greek, demotic and hieroglyphs) each saying the same thing. Because the words are translated into the other languages, it provided Jean-Francois Champollion the key to the mystery of Egyptian hieroglyphs."
[/quote]But that’s no surprise because the Cypriot language was used between 1500BC and 300BC… that’s 700 years before Greeks came up with a language of their own!
Don't start throwing garbage around, again, GR!
"The earliest texts are written in a script called Linear B. ... The language represented by this script is called Mycenaean and is thought to be an early form of Greek. The script was first discovered at Knossos in central Crete, but was also later discovered in Mycenaean regions on the mainland." M. Palmer
