How strong could their culture could have been when all is said and done? Their buildings were stronger than their culture, and that's only due to the grace of the dry and arid climate they happened to be built in.
Nah by my own standards Egypt was a very advanced society in it's own right but nowhere near the unanimous gold standard. Maybe in terms of architecture and stone building, sure, but not in other areas that we measure civilizations by. You dudes sound mad corny with all the KMT this KMT that shyt. Give it a rest. That shyt isn't even a continuous culture, it got stamped the fukk out 2000 years ago. Stop it. Even the native americans are still around to tell us what, who, and how their ancestors worshiped. But when it comes to the Egyptians I gotta youtube polight? Get the fukk outta here breh.
I'll say it again:
Most of what is called 'Ancient Egypt' was ruled by people native to that land.
You're talking about a 2,600 year period (From about 3,100 to 500 BC). Within that time, one dynasty was foreign (the Hyksos). They ruled for about a 100 years.
What Charlie Manson is talking about is the late period (around 500 BC onward) when first the Nubians, then the Assyrians, then the Persians ruled (25th - 29th dynasties). With the 30th dynasty, native Egyptians took it back for about 40 years (this was the last native Egyptian dynasty). Then started the Greeks, then Romans.
Again, for a good 2,600 years there was native rulers.
Their culture was so strong it lasted for 2,600 years virtually uninterrupted. That's longer than any culture in the history of the world.
Even after the Persians and the Greeks conquered Egypt, they kept calling themselves Pharaohs. So invaders adopted their culture. So it's actually closer to 3,000 years.