If Wilhelm Reich is the Moses who has led them out of the Egypt of sexual slavery, Dylan Thomas is the poet who offers them the Dionysian dialectic of justification for their indulgence in liquor, marijuana, sex, and jazz.

His credulity is perhaps best illustrated in his introduction to The Emancipation Of Massachusetts, which purports to examine the trials of Moses and to draw a parallel between the leader of the Israelite exodus from Egypt and the leadership of the Puritan clergy in colonial New England.

There is no agreement on when and where this Urheimat existed, though the language is generally believed to have originated somewhere in or near the region stretching from the Levant / Near East to the area between the Eastern Sahara and the Horn of Africa, including Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan.

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 Egypt was an ancient civilization of Northeastern Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern country of Egypt.

* 435 – Deposed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism, is exiled by Roman Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt.

Gervase and Protase — and is one of the oldest extant bodies of historical personages known outside Egypt.

He is buried in at the Mausoleum of Aga Khan, on the Nile in Aswan, Egypt.

It is thought that Alcaeus travelled widely during his years in exile, including at least one visit to Egypt.

Amasis would send one of his eunuchs to capture Phanes, but the eunuch is bested by the wise council man and Phanes flees to Persia, meeting up with Cambyses providing advice in his invasion of Egypt.

Herodotus relates that under his prudent administration, Egypt reached a new level of wealth ; Amasis adorned the temples of Lower Egypt especially with splendid monolithic shrines and other monuments ( his activity here is proved by existing remains ).

Ancient Egyptians burned ambergris as incense, while in modern Egypt ambergris is used for scenting cigarettes.

* 1957 – The Suez Canal in Egypt is cleared and opens to shipping.

The final conflict was provoked by Antony, who is said to have been persuaded by his lover, the queen Cleopatra of Egypt, to retire to her land and give battle to mask his retreat ; but lack of provisions and the growing demoralization of his army would eventually account for this decision.

For geopolitical purposes, the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt – east of the Suez Canal – is often considered part of Africa.

There is also the strange myth of the brothers Aegyptus and Danaus, sons of Belus, with the latter supposedly coming from Egypt, that Marianne Luban has suggested may date to this time.

Its value is the insight it provides to the ancient culture of Egypt.

The Heroninos Archive is the name given to a huge collection of papyrus documents, mostly letters, but also including a fair number of accounts, which come from Roman Egypt in 3rd century AD.

there is very close commerce with Egypt, and Aegean things find their way to all coasts of the Mediterranean.

Ancient Nubia shared many aspects of its mythology with ancient Egypt and there is debate about the original source of some religious concepts that the two cultures share and, whether the assimilation was from Nubia to Egypt, the reverse, or through continuing exchanges.

Others suggest the alphabet was developed in central Egypt during the 15th century BC for or by Semitic workers, but only one of these early writings has been deciphered and their exact nature remains open to interpretation.

His kingdom consisted probably of Egypt only, as far as the First Cataract, but to this he added Cyprus, and his influence was great in Cyrene.

Of the numerous works ( mostly on medicine ) which Osaiba ascribes to him, one only, his graphic and detailed Account of Egypt ( in two parts ), appears to be known in Europe.

It proved no more successful, however, as only bishops from the West and Egypt bothered to appear.

A number of biblical scholars suspect that the distinction of the Joseph tribes ( including Benjamin ) is that they were the only Israelites which went to Egypt and returned, while the main Israelite tribes simply emerged as a subculture from the Canaanites and had remained in Canaan throughout.

According to this view, the story of Jacob's visit to Laban to obtain a wife originated as a metaphor for this migration, with the property and family which were gained from Laban representing the gains of the Joseph tribes by the time they returned from Egypt ; according to textual scholars, the Jahwist version of the Laban narrative only mentions the Joseph tribes, and Rachel, and does not mention the other tribal matriarchs whatsoever.

Although most early codices were made of papyrus, papyrus was fragile and supplies from Egypt, the only place where papyrus grew and was made into paper, became scanty ; the more durable parchment and vellum gained favor, despite the cost.

However, from about 1882, the rulers had only de jure rule over Egypt, as it had by then become a British puppet state.

Despite covering only about 5. 5 % of the total area of Egypt, the Nile Valley and Nile Delta are the most important regions, being the country's only cultivable regions and supporting about 99 % of the population.

After the revolution Egypt ’ s foreign exchange reserves fell from $ 36 billion in December 2010 to only $ 16. 3 billion in January 2012, also in February 2012 Standard & Poor ’ s rating agency lowered the Egypt ’ s credit rating from B + to B in the long term.

The Egyptian military is one of the strongest in the region, and gives Egypt regional military supremacy rivaled only by Israel, besides being one of the strongest in Africa.

Egypt is one of the few countries in the Middle East, and the only Arab state, with a reconnaissance satellite and has launched another one in 2007.

The battle halted the second ( and final ) advance by the Axis forces into Egypt, El Alamein being only from Alexandria.

The Great Pyramid of Giza is the only pyramid in Egypt known to contain both ascending and descending passages.

Egypt repelled its attackers with only a major effort, and over the next century shrank to its territorial core, its central authority permanently weakened.

described as " semi-legal " and was the only opposition group in Egypt able to field candidates during elections.

Jordan and Egypt are the only two Arab nations to have signed a peace treaty with Israel.

Their work on production of sal ammoniac from soot led to their partnership in a profitable chemical works, manufacturing the crystalline salt which was used for dyeing, metalworking and as smelling salts and previously was available only from natural sources and had to be imported from Egypt.

The word was that the only kingdom prospering was Egypt.

In expelling the Soviet Union, the League broke its own rule: only 7 of 15 members of the Council voted for expulsion ( Great Britain, France, Belgium, Bolivia, Egypt, South Africa, and the Dominican Republic ), short of the majority required by the Covenant.

In 1898, the Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities described the structure as " the largest of all the temples of Egypt, the so-called Labyrinth, of which, however, only the foundation stones have been preserved.

* The British in Freetown intercepted this message but, believing it might be a ruse de guerre, refused to credit it, yet still passed it on to the U. S. The Allies had gone to much effort to establish an airfield on Ascension as a link in their only air route between the United States and the Desert War in Egypt.