In the Middle Bronze Age an apparently " alphabetic " system known as the Proto-Sinaitic script is thought by some to have been developed in the Sinai peninsula during the 19th century BC, by Canaanite workers in the Egyptian turquoise mines.

The word can be traced from the Middle Egyptian ( c. 2000 BC ) word dj-b-t " mud sun-dried brick.

This climate-induced collapse seems to have affected the whole of the Middle East, and to have coincided with the collapse of the Egyptian Old Kingdom.

Egyptian Satellite channels broadcast to the Middle East, Europe, and the U. S. East Coast.

In addition to Egyptian programming, the Middle East Broadcast Company, a Saudi television station transmitting from London ( MBC ), Arab Radio and Television ( ART ), Al-Jazeera television, and other Gulf stations as well as Western networks such as CNN and BBC, provide access to more international programs to Egyptians who own satellite receivers.

Although the Egyptian Navy is the smallest branch of the military, it is large by Middle Eastern standards.

The Egyptian Navy is known to be the strongest in the African continent, and the largest in the Middle East in spite of the rapid growth of other countries ' navies within the region.

Being a pioneer of peace making in the region and driven from its belief that a peaceful Middle East is the best solution for the development of Egypt, the third Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's groundbreaking trip to Israel in 1977, the 1978 Camp David Accords, and the 1979 Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty represented a fundamental shift in the politics of the region ; from a strategy of confrontation to one of peace as a strategic choice.

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.

Ancient Egyptian and Middle Eastern peoples also used honey for embalming the dead.

The collection, among the world's largest, overviews Egyptian life spanning Ancient Egypt, the Middle Kingdom, the New Kingdom, Coptic art, and the Roman, Ptolemaic, and Byzantine periods.

Various types of necked chordophones were in use in ancient Greek, Egyptian ( in the Middle Kingdom ), Hittite, Roman, Bulgar, Turkic, Indian, Chinese, Armenian / Cilician cultures.

Many ancient murals have survived in Egyptian tombs ( around 3150 BC ), the Minoan palaces ( Middle period III of the Neopalatial period, 1700-1600 BC ) and in Pompeii ( around 100 BC-AD 79 ).

The oldest written manuscripts have been preserved by the perfect dryness of their Middle Eastern resting places, whether placed within sarcophagi in Egyptian tombs, or reused as mummy-wrappings, discarded in the middens of Oxyrhynchus or secreted for safe-keeping in jars and buried ( Nag Hammadi library ) or stored in dry caves ( Dead Sea scrolls ).

Each game drew its inspiration from a different culture and mythology ( in order, Germanic / fairy tale ; Middle Eastern / Arabian Nights ; Egyptian / African ; Slavic folklore / Eastern European folklore ; and finally Greco-Mediterranean ) with the hero facing increasingly powerful opponents with help from characters who become increasingly familiar from game to game.

From the period of the Middle Kingdom onwards, Saluki-like animals appear on the ancient Egyptian tombs of 2134 BC.

Salukis appear on Egyptian tombs increasingly commonly from The Middle Kingdom ( 2134 BC-1785 BC ) onward, and have often been found mummified alongside the bodies of the Pharaohs in the Pyramids.

In order for his imaginary languages to have this type of depth, Barker developed entire cultures, histories, dress fashions, architectural styles, weapons, armor, tactical styles, legal codes, demographics and more, inspired by Indian, Middle Eastern, Egyptian and Meso-American mythology in contrast to the majority of such fantasy settings, which draw primarily on European mythologies.

Smoking, Culture and Economy in the Middle East: The Egyptian Tobacco Market 1850 – 2000.

The 1970s saw an initial increase in violence in the Middle East as Egypt and Syria declared war on Israel, but in the late 1970s, the situation in the Middle East was fundamentally altered when Egypt signed the Egyptian – Israeli Peace Treaty.

* October 27 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin win the Nobel Peace Prize for their progress toward achieving a Middle East accord.

By the Middle Kingdom period, as the funeral texts began to be used by members of Egyptian society other than the royal family, the role of Isis as protector also grew, to include the protection of nobles and even commoners.

* Middle Bulgarian ( 12th to 15th century ) – a literary norm that evolved from the earlier Old Bulgarian, after major innovations were accepted.

Middle school cheerleading evolved shortly after high school squads started.

Anatomically modern humans evolved from archaic Homo sapiens in the Middle Paleolithic, about 200, 000 years ago.

From its earliest beginnings in the Middle Ages, gin has evolved over the course of a millennium from an herbal medicine to an object of commerce in the spirits industry.

The present Chinese language varieties developed out of the different ways in which dialects of Old Chinese and Middle Chinese evolved.

These fortifications evolved over the course of the Middle Ages, the most important form being the castle, a structure which has become linked with the medieval era to many.

The vast majority of the human population of Scandinavia are Scandinavians, descended from several ( North ) Germanic tribes who originally inhabited the southern part of Scandinavia and what is now northern Germany, who spoke a Germanic language that evolved into Old Norse and who were known as Norsemen in the Early Middle Ages.

Modern Western universities evolved from the monastic institutions and ( especially ) cathedral schools of Western Europe during the High Middle Ages ( see, for instance, the University of Bologna, Paris University and Oxford University ).

The modern European violin evolved from various bowed stringed instruments from the Middle East and the Byzantine Empire.

The name further evolved to Coliseum during the Middle Ages.

There is also a reference to ' criquet ' in North-East France in 1478 and evidence that the game evolved in South-East England in the Middle Ages.

The relations between Israel and the United States have evolved from an initial United States policy of sympathy and support for the creation of a Jewish state in 1948 ( It was the first country to recognize the establishment of the State ) to an unusual partnership that links Israel with the United States trying to balance competing interests in the Middle East region.

Starting with Middle Japanese, the grammar evolved so as to explicitly distinguish topics from nontopics.

Despite the Irish ancestry of Dublin's first non-indigenous settlers, the town, like most of Middle Georgia, by the late 19th century had evolved from mixture of ethnicities.

During the Middle Ages Hörby evolved into a centre of commerce, much due to its location, right in the middle of Skåne.

Through the Middle Ages the wooden buildings within the castle square evolved and changed, the most significant addition being the Great Hall built of stone and timber, variously used as Parliament house, court of law and banqueting hall.

Modern Mongolian evolved from " Middle Mongol ", the language spoken in the Mongol Empire of the 13th and 14th centuries.

Later these iconographic models evolved in the Middle East and Egypt into a single column representing two torsos and finally a single body with two heads looking at opposite directions.

The Mandaeans were originally native speakers of Mandaic, a Semitic language that evolved from Eastern Middle Aramaic, before switching to colloquial Iraqi Arabic and Modern Persian.

Low German Neghen-doer and Middle German Nünmörder were also used ; this has today evolved into Neuntöter and specifically means the Red-backed Shrike, but could in earlier times refer to any native Lanius.

Oars mounted on the side of ships evolved into quarter rudders, which were used from antiquity until the end of the Middle Ages in Europe.

The word evolved from the Middle English tikelen, perhaps frequentative of ticken, to touch lightly.

English melodrama evolved from the tradition of populist drama established during the Middle Ages by mystery and morality plays, under influences from Italian commedia dell ' arte as well as German Sturm und Drang drama and Parisian melodrama of the post-Revolutionary period.

It retained these two names while it was ruled by the counts of Toulouse during early part of the Middle Ages, but the southern part became more familiar as Roussillon and the west became known as Foix, and the name " Gothia " ( along with the older name " Septimania ") faded away during the 10th century, except as a traditional designation as the region fractured into smaller feudal entities, which sometimes retained Carolingian titles, but lost their Carolingian character, as the culture of Septimania evolved into the culture of Languedoc.