The Ancient Egyptians

The book I read to research this post was The Ancient Egyptians for Dummies by Charlotte Booth which is a very good book which I bought from kindle. This subject isn't quite as the ancient greeks which I recently did a post on. In ancient egypt a number of pharoahs built there own capitals which then fell into disuse after they died but there are 2 cities which featured as capitals most of the time, they are cairo which was called memphis & luxor which was called thebes which is the greek name but is generally acknowledged. We don't now how the egyptians did their carvings out of rock it would have needed something as strong as steel & steel hadn't been invented. We also don't know how they placed the rocks that make up the pyramids so precisely, you can't even insert a piece of paper between them. Egyptologists can decipher hieroglyphics because something called the rosetta stone was discovered which contained the same message in ancient greek which they could translate & also hieroglyphics & demotoglyphics neither of which were understood at that time, some code breaking followed & while they don't understand them fully, they have a sort of working knowledge. Up until 5,000BC a lot of egypt was fertile & the people were nomadic, at around that time there were geological changes which resulted in the sahara being formed this resulted in people having to settle where there was water. When the egyptian dynasties were finally vanquished it was the result of being invaded by the assyrians.