What do consider the greatest man-made achievement

[WestTexasCrude]

So, with this new gained knowledge, historians were able to translate the history of Egypt back thousands of years. One mid-1900's find attracted little interest. It was found in only one source. It described a female Pharaoh in around 600 BC hiring Phoenicians hired to build their boats on the Eastern shore at the Red Sea. Doesn't mention how many sailors or how many ships. Just they were to explore down the East coast of Africa. They were gone 3 years and magically appeared off Alexandria. Said they sailed thousands of miles and rounded the S tip of Africa, sailed up the W coast and entered the Med through the Straights of Hercules. Total wonder until they started describing fantasy's like the seasons were flipped there and in the Winter your shadow was pointed South instead of North. Sure sounds like someone circumvented Africa 2.000 years before the Portuguese.

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[megman]

Greatest thing was the wax ring. The old lead elbow was just to hard on the sphincter.

[Stapes]

I have always been fascinated with the human urge to explore. Whether it's the first human leaving Africa and spreading. Or the Polynesians taking to boats 1,200 years ago and spreading across the Pacific. Or Siberian hunters in their furs seeing open land ahead and colonizing a New World. Just mind blowing.

This is rather lengthy, indulge me. Probably the greatest archeology find of the 1800's maybe found the greatest of the 1900's. Egyptian hieroglyphics were for thousands of years unreadable, like a dead language. Napoleon's 1805 expedition to Egypt found the "Rosetta Stone". Basically a stelle with 3 sides carved with translations in Egyptian, Greek, Roman (latin). Took French language experts another 3 decades to finally crack the hieroglyphics and start reading the text from 3,000 years of history. With me so far?

OH MY GOD!!!

Professor pudding pants.

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