How far down would an archaeologist have to dig to find artifacts in Egypt, dating 3500 B.C.?
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Actually, as an archaeologist who has actually dug in Egypt, I have to say that it isn't that simple.  While it would be very nice if a certain amount of dirt equaled a certain amount of time, geological processes of deposition just aren't that simple.  Sand, dirt, trash, whatever, accumulates at different rates depending on what kind of soil it is, what the weather and climate is like in an area, and how much human activity is going on in a given place.  \nFor example, my most recent work was on a structure dating to the early New Kingdom, around 1500 BC - and in some places the top of the structure was visible on the surface and in others we had to dig down about half a meter.  Conversely, in work I've done in the United States, I've had to dig down 3 meters to reach artifacts that were no more than 300-500 years old.
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Just look up carbon 14 dating in applied anthropology, archaeology.
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I love that joke.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen I heard it 25 years ago.  You must be a fantastic archaeologist to dig that one up.
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either 6000 or 4.5 billion years
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From about 6000 BC various communities of hunter-gatherers make the Nile and Egypt the centre of their territory, around which they roam. But the drying of the Sahara increasingly confines them to the river area. The unusual habit of this great river - flooding every year and depositing a layer of rich moist soil on the surrounding region - is ideally suited to the development of settled agriculture. The river takes upon itself two otherwise laborious tasks, irrigation and the enriching of the soil.\n\nBy about 3100 BC these communities have become sufficiently prosperous and stable to be united in a single political entity - the first Egyptian dynasty.\n  \nThe first dynasty: from c.3100 BC\nThe unifying of Upper and Lower Egypt into a single kingdom is the event pointed to by the ancient Egyptians themselves as the beginning of their civilization. \nWhatever the name, the first historical dynasty is brought into being by the king or pharaoh who in about 3100 BC establishes control over the whole navigable length of the Nile. His is the first of thirty Egyptian dynasties, spanning nearly three millennia - an example of social continuity rivalled in human history only by China.\n\nNo one knows the name of this first dynasty definitively. King Narmer is thought to have reigned c. 3150 BCE as first king of the 1st dynasty (and/or last king of the 0 dynasty) of a unified ancient Egypt. But it is unclear if he actually existed.
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You'd have to be about 2,000 years old to pull that off.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_egypt
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egypt, beside the pyramids
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Apparently as early as 1552 BC, according to the site below.
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I would want to go back to hmm lemme see Egyptian Period! To know the secrets of building pyramids and stuff :-)Really fascinating!!!
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Archaeologist is a scientist who studies how people lived long ago.
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approx 325 BC\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid
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ye i agree about the 1960's, think that would be pretty fun. I would also like 2 go back and see the ancient egyptians
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Look on www.fastweb.com for those in the US. Just sign up and fill out the profile and it should help you find some in archaeology.
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can't recall but about 600-700 years old.
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It was is 2303BC in egypt they used a ruler like stick to measure abd find the length of and record the stars/
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Human remains covered in resin and cloth were found inside a 5,000-year-old cedar wood coffin at Sakkara near Cairo, Egypt. \nThe coffin had been placed in a tomb thought to date from 3100 to 2890 BC under Egypt's 1st Dynasty.