In addition to languages spoken today, Afroasiatic includes several ancient languages, such as Ancient Egyptian, Akkadian, and Biblical Hebrew.

However, Ancient Egyptian is highly divergent from Proto-Afroasiatic ( Trombetti 1905: 1 – 2 ), and considerable time must have elapsed in between them.

The Greeks further identified the Ancient Egyptian goddess Hathor with Aphrodite.

Ancient Egyptian papyrus depicting the journey into the afterlife.

The afterlife played an important role in Ancient Egyptian religion, and its belief system is one of the earliest known.

Ancient Egyptian civilization was based on religion ; their belief in the rebirth after death became their driving force behind their funeral practices.

* Abydos, Egypt, an Ancient Egyptian city

It has recently been suggested that the regional decline at the end of the Akkadian period ( and First Intermediary Period of the Ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom ) was associated with rapidly increasing aridity, and failing rainfall in the region of the Ancient Near East, caused by a global centennial-scale drought.

The aegis also appears in Ancient Egyptian mythology.

Ancient Egyptian Magic.

In Ancient Egyptian architecture as early as 2600 BC the architect Imhotep made use of stone columns whose surface was carved to reflect the organic form of bundled reeds ; in later Egyptian architecture faceted cylinders were also common.

This calendar is in turn based on the old Egyptian calendar of Ancient Egypt.

* Ancient Egyptian Geography

* Comparison Between Ancient And Modern Egyptian Governments at Aldokkan

Ancient Egyptian texts dating from 2750 BC referred to these fish as the " Thunderer of the Nile ", and described them as the " protectors " of all other fish.

Ancient Egyptian religion was a complex system of polytheistic beliefs and rituals which were an integral part of ancient Egyptian society.

The beliefs and rituals now referred to as " Ancient Egyptian religion " existed within every aspect of Egyptian culture.

Ancient Egyptian religion was not a monolithic institution, but consisted of a vast and varying set of beliefs and practices, linked by their common focus on the interaction between the world of humans and the world of the divine.

Category: Ancient Egyptian pyramids

Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics record the cultivation of purple grapes, and history attests to the ancient Greeks, Phoenicians and Romans growing purple grapes for both eating and wine production.

An early example of the Golden Rule that reflects the Ancient Egyptian concept of Maat appears in the story of The Eloquent Peasant, which dates to the Middle Kingdom ( c. 2040 – 1650 BCE ): " Now this is the command: Do to the doer to cause that he do thus to you.

Seneb, court official and priest for the Ancient Egypt ian rulers Khufu and Djedefre, with his wife Senetites and their children.

* Pontifex Maximus, the high priest of the Ancient Roman College of Pontiffs

Ancient Roman bronze statuette of a priest, his capite velato | head ritually covered, extending a patera in a gesture of libation

Abaris the Hyperborean ( Greek:, Abaris Hyperboreios ), son of Seuthes, was a legendary sage, healer, and priest of Apollo known to the Ancient Greeks.

( born February 24, 1936 ) is a Jesuit priest and National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California in the United States.

* Archiereus title of a high priest from Ancient Greece.

While the Egyptian priest Manetho, writing in the third century BC, stated that Djer ruled for 57 years, modern research by Toby Wilkinson in Royal Annals of Ancient Egypt stresses that the near-contemporary and therefore, more accurate Palermo Stone ascribes Djer a reign of " 41 complete and partial years.

Ancient recordings indicate the first batch of tea seeds were brought by a priest named in 805 and then by another named in 806.

The Regia was a structure in Ancient Rome in the Roman Forum that originally served as the residence or one of the main headquarters of kings of Rome and later as the office of the Pontifex Maximus, the high priest of Roman religion.

It was actually written in 1913 by Jose E. Marco as a part of his historical fiction Las antiguas leyendas de la Isla de Negros ( Spanish, " The Ancient Legends of the Island of Negros "), which he attributed to a priest named Jose Maria Pavon.

* On, a name in Genesis in the Bible ( in " Potiphar priest of On "), thought in older times to be a name of Osiris ( but now known by Egyptologists to be the Hebrew form of the Ancient Egyptian name of the city of Heliopolis ).

An abbot ( from Old English abbod, abbad, from Latin abbas (“ father ”), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς ( abbas ), from Aramaic ܐܒܐ / אבא (’ abbā, “ father ”); confer German Abt ; French abbé ) is the head and chief governor of a community of monks, called also in the East hegumen or archimandrite.

Notably, he published a book called Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry in 1871, of which there were several subsequent editions.

The town of Basel was called Basilea or Basilia in Latin ( from Ancient Greek Basileia, Βασιλεια meaning kingship ) and this name is documented from 374 AD.

Among the Ancient Greeks, Heraclitus conceived of a logos, a supreme rational principle, and said the wisdom " by which all things are steered through all things " was " both willing and unwilling to be called Zeus ( God )".

There is a depiction of a hockey-like game from 200 BC in Ancient Greece when the game may have been called " Κερητίζειν " (" kerētízein ") because it was played with a horn (" κέρας " in Greek ) and a ball-like object.

* aspect — Ancient Greek: imperfective, perfective ( traditionally called aorist ), perfect ( sometimes also called perfective ; see note about terminology );

Ancient Gallifreyans are all telepathic and were ruled by a female cult centred on a figure called the Pythia, who controlled the population through mysticism and prophecies.

As a language evolves, cases can merge ( for instance in Ancient Greek genitive and ablative have merged as genitive ), a phenomenon formally called syncretism.

Several strategy games, such as Rise of Nations, Rome: Total War, Spartan Total Warrior, Empire Earth, Civilization, Ancient Wars: Sparta, Age of Empires, Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City and Age of Mythology, feature infantry units called " Hoplites " or " Phalanx ".

In Egypt, 4000-year-old carvings feature teams with sticks and a projectile, hurling dates to before 1272 BC in Ireland, and there is a depiction from c. 600 BC in Ancient Greece where the game may have been called kerētízein or kerhtízein ( κερητίζειν ) because it was played with a horn or horn-like stick ( kéras, κέρας ) In Inner Mongolia, China, the Daur people have been playing beikou, a game similar to modern field hockey, for about 1, 000 years.

There existed in Ancient Athens a mechanism through which it was assured that no one could select jurors, called dikastaí, for their own trial.

Ancient dry riverbeds — called omuramba — traverse the Central Northern reaches of the Kalahari and provide standing pools of water during the rainy season.

These three, ' The Ancient Mariner ,' ' Christabel ,' and ' Kubla Khan ,' produced an aura which defies definition, but which might be properly be called one of ' natural magic.

Assyrians of the Ancient Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church, Syriac Catholic Church, and Assyrian Church of the East observe a fast called Ba ' uta d-Ninwe or Bo ' utho d-Ninwe ( ܒܥܘܬܐ ܕܢܝܢܘܐ ) which means Nineveh's Wish.

As ruler of the dead, Osiris was also sometimes called " king of the living ", since the Ancient Egyptians considered the blessed dead " the living ones ".

Ancient Greeks called these lights ( " wandering stars ") or simply "" ( " wanderers "), from which today's word " planet " was derived.

Ancient Romans also enjoyed baking it in rich pies, called timballi.

The phlogiston theory ( from the Ancient Greek φλογιστόν phlogistón " burning up ", from φλόξ phlóx " flame "), first stated in 1667 by Johann Joachim Becher, is an obsolete scientific theory that postulated the existence of a fire-like element called " phlogiston ", which was contained within combustible bodies and released during combustion.

He called it " cursive Coptic " because, although it had few similarities with the later Coptic script, he was convinced that it was used to record some form of the Coptic language ( the direct descendant of Ancient Egyptian ).

His eldest son Ross Lawhead released his first book in his ' Ancient Earth ' trilogy, called ' The Realms Thereunder '.

In Ancient Greek, stops were called áphōna ( stoicheîa ), which was translated into Latin as mūtae ( cōnsōnantēs ), and from there borrowed into English as mute.

" Leaf " forms typically spring sideways from the stem, in what is often called a " half-palmette " form, named after its distant and very different looking ancestor in Ancient Egyptian and Greek ornament.

* A few Indo-European languages, namely Ancient Greek, Swedish, Norwegian, Limburgish, Lithuanian, the West South Slavic languages ( Slovene and Serbo-Croatian ), Vedic Sanskrit, and Punjabi have limited word-tone systems which are sometimes called pitch accent or " tonal accents ".

The Ancient Greek hoplites used a round, bowl-shaped wooden shield called an aspis.