The use of the abacus in Ancient Egypt is mentioned by the Greek historian Herodotus, who writes that the Egyptians manipulated the pebbles from right to left, opposite in direction to the Greek left-to-right method.

Ancient Egyptians pioneered the art of synthetic " wet " chemistry up to 4, 000 years ago.

The Egyptians, Persians and other civilizations mostly used columns for the practical purpose of holding up the roof inside a building, preferring outside walls to be decorated with reliefs or painting, but the Ancient Greeks, followed by the Romans, loved to use them on the outside as well, and the extensive use of columns on the interior and exterior of buildings is one of the most characteristic features of classical architecture, in buildings like the Parthenon.

Djibouti was home to an old civilization, together with northern Somalia, Eritrea, and the Red Sea coast of Sudan, was known to the Ancient Egyptians as Punt ( or " Ta Netjeru ," meaning god's land ), whose first mention dates to the 25th century BC

In the Pyramid Texts and Coffin Texts it is revealed the ancient Egyptians believed Nun ( the Ocean ) was a circular body surrounding nbwt ( a term meaning " dry lands " or " Islands ") and therefore believed in a similar Ancient Near Eastern circular earth cosmography surrounded by water.

Others have argued that the Ancient Egyptians had no concept of pi and would not have thought to encode it in their monuments.

Ancient Egyptians mined malachite at Maadi.

Ancient Egyptians used obsidian imported from the eastern Mediterranean and southern Red Sea regions.

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 ".

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Divine pardon at judgement was always a central concern for the Ancient Egyptians.

Ancient Egyptians used this plant as a writing material and for boats, mattresses, mats, rope, sandals, and baskets.

The Ancient Egyptians covered the faces of pyramids with polished white limestone, containing great quantities of fossilized seashells .< ref > Viegas, J., Pyramids packed with fossil shells, ABC News in Science, < www. abc. net. au / science / articles / 2008 / 04 / 28 / 2229383. htm ></ ref > Many of the facing stones have fallen or have been removed and used to build the mosques of Cairo.

By around 3000 BC, Ancient Egyptians knew how to assemble wooden planks into a hull.

:* c. 2350 BC: Ancient Egyptians establish trade with the Land of Punt.

It rich in history dating back to the Ancient Egyptians and the Ancient Nubians.

In addition to its formal name, Egyptians also refer to it affectionately as the " Land of Fayrouz ", based on the Ancient Egyptian " Dumafkat ", which has the same meaning.

Ancient Egyptians used thyme for embalming.

Ancient Egyptians invented the art of veneering and used varnishes for finishing, though the composition of these varnishes is unknown.

In Ancient Greece, Herodotus ( 5th century BC ), as founder of Greek historiography., presents insightful and lively discussions of the customs, geography, and history of Mediterranean peoples, particularly the Egyptians.

Rings are placed on the fourth finger on the left hand, because Ancient Egyptians believed that it contained a vein that lead to the heart ( vena amoris ).

Ancient Egyptians practiced Basin irrigation using the flooding of the Nile to inundate land plots which had been surrounded by dykes.

The building was burned and looted, along with the Ancient Temple and practically everything else on the rock.

* The Sacred fire of Vesta in Ancient Rome, which burned within the Temple of Vesta on the Roman Forum and was extinguished in the year 394 AD.

At around 2000 BC, Ancient China was the first civilization who began the use of incense in the religious sense, namely for worship.

The Shetland Amenity Trust lists about 120 sites in Shetland as candidate brochs, while The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historic Monuments of Scotland identifies a total of 571 candidate broch sites throughout the country.

Many scholars argue that these sophisticated fortifications allowed the east to develop relatively unmolested while Ancient Rome and the west collapsed.

It was the formulation of Mary as the Theotokos which caused a schism with the Church of the East, now divided between the Assyrian Church of the East and the Ancient Church of the East, while the Chaldean Catholic Church entered into full communion with Rome in the 16th century.

Ancient Greek made great use of participial constructions and of constructions involving the infinitive, while the modern variety lacks the infinitive entirely ( instead having a raft of new periphrastic constructions ) and uses participles more restrictedly.

Ancient Greek tended to be verb-final, while neutral word order in the modern language is VSO or SVO.

Other rivalries involve attitudes towards Ancient technology, with some Alliances ( such as " The Restorationists ") seeking to rebuild Ancient society, while others ( such as " The Seekers ") want to destroy remaining artifacts.

Aqueducts were built by the Greeks and Ancient Romans, while the history of China shows they built irrigation and flood control works.

Lovecraft's poetry is collected in The Ancient Track: The Complete Poetical Works of H. P. Lovecraft ( Night Shade Books, 2001 ), while much of his juvenilia, various essays on philosophical, political and literary topics, antiquarian travelogues, and other things, can be found in Miscellaneous Writings ( Arkham House, 1989 ).

Ancient astronomers were able to differentiate between stars and planets, as stars remain relatively fixed over the centuries while planets will move an appreciable amount during a comparatively short time.

Ancient greens and blues are lighter while reds appear orange.

Ancient Romans such as Pliny ( N. H. 5. 10 ) thought that the river near Timbuktu was part of the Nile River, a belief also held by Ibn Battuta, while early European explorers thought that it flowed west and joined the Senegal River.

It is set in an Earthlike world ( perhaps in an alternate reality ), deals with metaphysics, and refers heavily to Ancient Greek philosophy, while at the same time being a complex commentary on the insubstantiality of today's contemporary society.

The critical thinking of Aristotle and his emphasis on the relationship between structure and function marked the beginning of physiology in Ancient Greece, while Claudius Galenus ( c. 126-199 A. D .), known as Galen, was the first to use experiments to probe the function of the body.

Priestess officiating before an altar while nude to demonstrate purity, Attic red-figure kylix ( drinking cup ) | kylix by Chairias, c. 510-500 BC, Ancient Agora Museum in Athens

Some celebrate in a manner as close as possible to how the Ancient Celts and Living Celtic cultures have maintained the traditions, while others observe the holiday with rituals culled from numerous other unrelated sources, Celtic culture being only one of the sources used ..

In Ancient Rome, wealthy and important people tended to live on the hills of the city, while poorer citizens lived at lower elevations – hence " under the city ".

Ancient commentators noted that Virgil seems to divide the Aeneid into two sections based on the poetry of Homer ; the first six books were viewed as employing the Odyssey as a model while the last six were connected to the Iliad.

Some celebrate in a way as close as possible to how they believe Ancient Germanic pagans observed the tradition, while others observe the holiday with rituals culled from numerous other unrelated sources including Germanic.

The Maya civilization rises in Central America, while in Africa, Ancient Egypt begins its decline, rise of the Nubian Empire, and Aksum's birth.

Riegl traced formalistic continuity and development in decorative plant forms from Ancient Egyptian art and other ancient Near Eastern civilizations through the classical world to the Islamic arabesque ; while the Kunstwollen has few followers today, his basic analysis of the development of forms has been confirmed and refined by the wider corpus of examples known today.

In the theatre of Ancient Greece, three actors played all of the main dramatic roles in a tragedy ; the leading role was played by the protagonist, while the other roles were played by deuteragonist and the tritagonist.

In Ancient Rome, the legend of the twin brothers who founded the city ( Romulus and Remus ) made the birth of twin boys a blessing, while twin girls were seen as an unlucky burden, since both would have to be provided with an expensive dowry at about the same time.

Its generic name is derived from the Ancient Greek strix, genitive strigos " owl ", and ops " face ", while its specific epithet comes from habros " soft ", and ptilon " feather ".