Amenhotep III: The Pinnacle of Egyptian Prosperity

Sometimes the way we learn about the past colors our impression and understanding of it. Minor events can be made to seem huge and extremely significant ones can be downplayed or totally overlooked. It’s hard to be on the lookout for all the different biases that can color what we learn about events we weren’t even alive to witness.

One of the strangest ways our understanding of history can be manipulated deals with time. Some periods or events that have received a lot of attention were far more short-lived than many of us in the present ever realized.

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