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Why Does This Newly Discovered 2,000-Year-Old Stone Slab Depict a Roman Emperor as an Egyptian Pharaoh?
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cm0002 lemdro.id cm0002@lemdro.id
Joined: 2025-06-07
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Link: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-does-this-newly-discovered-2000-year-old-stone-slab-depict-a-roman-emperor-as-an-egyptian-pharaoh-180988549/
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Em Adespoton lemmy.ca adespoton@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-06-04
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Because he was?

Well, pharaoh, anyway, as explained in the article. Kind of like the UK monarch today also being the monarch of all the nations of the commonwealth.
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Captain Aggravated sh.itjust.works captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-20
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Em Adespoton wrote:
Because he was? Well, pharaoh, anyway, as explained in the article. Kind of like the UK monarch today also being the monarch of all the nations of the commonwealth.

Something something Ptolemy?
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