I love ancient Egypt. The days when the men wore togas and women ruled the land. When snakes could dance and cats were revered as Gods. You could wear a golden cobra on your head and make it look good! Gold was plenty and adorned even the walls of the royal palaces and temples. Jewels filled baskets in the dusty halls of the royal vault. Necklaces of solid gold baring pendants of beetles or scorpions hung from the necks of each Senator while their wives wore gowns created from spun gold cloth. Those were the days!
I believe that the ancient Egyptian alchemists had discovered the recipe for gold. Although Egypt was extraordinarily prosperous for hundreds of years and certainly could have gathered a large amount of wealth in the form of jewels and precious metals. To have amassed such a huge portion of the worlds gold seems hard to fathom. Travel was limited to ships and animals. It's not like you could hop the 11:15 red-eye to Toledo. It took months to get from place to place and lord knows carrying gold along will make the trip all the more speedy.
What happened to the recipe for gold? I have an answer, well more of a theory. When the Library of Alexandria burned, so did the recipe for gold along with many ancient artifacts, writings and books that would have changed the world as we know it had they survived. Imagine what the equivalent to energy drinks were back then? Come on, they built the pyramids!
None-the-less, the existence of many jewels, golden pendants and all of the amazing archeological finds from the pyramids, Valley of the King and other digs in Egypt, we know that ancient Egypt was certainly at the top of their game at one period in time.
I believe that the ancient Egyptian alchemists had discovered the recipe for gold. Although Egypt was extraordinarily prosperous for hundreds of years and certainly could have gathered a large amount of wealth in the form of jewels and precious metals. To have amassed such a huge portion of the worlds gold seems hard to fathom. Travel was limited to ships and animals. It's not like you could hop the 11:15 red-eye to Toledo. It took months to get from place to place and lord knows carrying gold along will make the trip all the more speedy.
What happened to the recipe for gold? I have an answer, well more of a theory. When the Library of Alexandria burned, so did the recipe for gold along with many ancient artifacts, writings and books that would have changed the world as we know it had they survived. Imagine what the equivalent to energy drinks were back then? Come on, they built the pyramids!
None-the-less, the existence of many jewels, golden pendants and all of the amazing archeological finds from the pyramids, Valley of the King and other digs in Egypt, we know that ancient Egypt was certainly at the top of their game at one period in time.
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