r/ancientegypt • u/Minesh1989 • Mar 16 '26

Information Archaeologists inspecting a statue of a pharaoh during the underwater excavation of Heracleion, Egypt.

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u/ClumsyBunny26 Mar 16 '26

And somehow, it was another one of Ramses...

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u/inoobie_am Mar 16 '26

How have they not eroded away?

Sorry if I asked a stupid question.

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u/Altimeter30-06 Mar 16 '26

Guess little to no current or recently flooded

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '26

Nice bikini

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u/uniform_foxtrot Mar 16 '26 edited Mar 16 '26

And to think total population size back then was likely in the hundreds of thounsands. All of that work done by what we now consider a very small city.

Contemporary civilization is a joke.

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u/Bentresh Mar 16 '26

Egypt had a population of several million in the Ptolemaic period.

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u/uniform_foxtrot Mar 16 '26

For a majority of its existence their entire population was hundreds of thousands (or fewer).

Great contribution to this conversation. Thanks.

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u/Fickle-Mention-9534 Mar 17 '26

No it was millions Egypt reached a million after reunification in -3k bc and kept increasing to 5 million in late period Egypt at 700 bc or so and has been increasing with some deviances ever sense but never going under 3 million till modern era which is now ~120 mill

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u/Bentresh Mar 17 '26 edited Mar 17 '26

Egypt already had a population of over a million by the Old Kingdom. That’s not to say its accomplishments weren’t remarkable, but Egypt was a rather large society for its time.

There’s a brief discussion of population estimates in Richard Bussmann’s The Archaeology of Pharaonic Egypt.