In the early 19th century the foundations for the extensive collection of sculpture began to be laid and Greek, Roman and Egyptian artefacts dominated the antiquities displays.

The British Museum houses the world's largest and most comprehensive collection of Egyptian antiquities, over 100, 000 pieces, outside the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

After the defeat of the French forces under Napoleon at the Battle of the Nile in 1801, the Egyptian antiquities collected were confiscated by the British army and presented to the British Museum in 1803.

During the Restoration ( 1814 – 30 ), Louis XVIII and Charles X between them added 135 pieces at a cost of 720, 000 francs and created the department of Egyptian antiquities curated by Champollion, increased by more than 7, 000 works with the acquisition of antiquities in the Edmé-Antoine Durand, the Egyptian collection of Henry Salt or the second collection former by Bernardino Drovetti.

The Museum of Grenoble is above all renowned for its collection of paintings that covers all the artistic evolutions, but it also presents Egyptian antiquities as well as Greek and Roman artifacts.

Similarly, the 15th-century Egyptian historian al-Maqrizi wrote detailed accounts of Egyptian antiquities.

Among the institutions affiliated with the university are The KITLV or Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies ( founded in 1851 ), the observatory 1633 ; the natural history museum, with a very complete anatomical cabinet ; the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden ( National Museum of Antiquities ), with specially valuable Egyptian and Indian departments ; a museum of Dutch antiquities from the earliest times ; and three ethnographical museums, of which the nucleus was Philipp Franz von Siebold's Japanese collections.

* Supreme Council of Antiquities, the Egyptian antiquities service

Having made a special study of Egyptology, he became in 1865 Dozent in Egyptian language and antiquities at Jena, becoming professor in 1868.

The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, known commonly as the Egyptian Museum, in Cairo, Egypt, is home to an extensive collection of ancient Egyptian antiquities.

* List of museums with major collections of Egyptian antiquities

Looting can also refer to antiquities formerly removed from countries by outsiders, such as some of the contents of Egyptian tombs which were transported to museums in Europe.

In 1913 Petrie sold his large collection of Egyptian antiquities to University College, London, where it is now housed in the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology.

Under Auguste Mariette's arrangements, he sent 50 % of these portraits to the Egyptian department of antiquities.

Her collection of Egyptian antiquities were donated to the Utah Museum of Fine Arts.

In turn, the origin of aleph may have been a pictogram of an ox head in Egyptian hieroglyphs.

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

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 Egyptian god Set is said, by some, to have the head of an aardvark or to be part aardvark.

Egyptians also believed that being mummified and put in a sarcophagus ( an ancient Egyptian " coffin " carved with complex symbols and designs, as well as pictures and hieroglyphs ) was the only way to have an afterlife.

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.

Amasis seems to have complied by forcing an Egyptian physician into mandatory labor causing him to leave his family behind in Egypt and move to Persia in forced exile.

Bows and arrows have been present in Egyptian culture since its predynastic origins.

Included amongst the ethnic names of the repulsed invaders is the Ekwesh or Eqwesh, whom some have seen as Achaeans, although Egyptian texts specifically mention these Ekwesh to be circumcised ( which does not seem to have been a general practice in the Aegaean at the time ).

Fragments of some other plays have survived in quotes and more continue to be discovered on Egyptian papyrus, often giving us surprising insights into his work.

There have now been recognized in the collections at Cairo, Florence, London, Paris and Bologna several Egyptian imitations of the Aegean style which can be set off against the many debts which the centres of Aegean culture owed to Egypt.

At least two of the cellphone calls made by passengers indicate that all the hijackers they saw were wearing red bandanas, which some have questioned may have signified an allegiance to the Egyptian Islamic Jihad.

At least two of the cellphone calls made by passengers indicate that all the hijackers they saw were wearing red bandanas, which some believe may have signified an allegiance to the Egyptian Islamic Jihad.

While still a deacon under Alexander's care, he seems to have been brought for a while into close relations with some of the solitaries of the Egyptian desert, and in particular with the Anthony the Great, whose life he is said to have written.

This may have Egyptian origins.

Concrete additives have been used since Roman and Egyptian times, when it was discovered that adding volcanic ash to the mix allowed it to set under water.

They have also been reported from several New Kingdom levels of ancient Egyptian archaeological sites.

Proto-Chadic language is believed * to have originated in Asia before it entered Africa as early as 7 kya, probably before or after the First Egyptian Dynasty.

From that point onward, Alexandria would have two patriarchs: the non-Chalcedonian native Egyptian one, now known as the Coptic Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of All Africa on the Holy Apostolic See of St. Mark and the " Melkite " or Imperial Patriarch, now known as the Greek Orthodox Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of All Africa.

After the retreat from Gallipoli nearly 400, 000 men in 13 divisions from the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force and the Force in Egypt formed a strategic reserve in Egypt called the Egyptian Expeditionary Force.

Many new political parties formed in anticipation of running candidates in the Egyptian parliamentary election, 2011 – 2012.

During the St. Louis crusade, dismounted French knights formed a tight lance-and-shield phalanx to repel Egyptian cavalry.

When King Solomon married the daughter of the Egyptian Pharaoh, a sandbank formed which eventually formed the " great nation of Rome "-the nation that destroyed the Second Temple ( Herod's Temple ).

When King Solomon married the daughter of the Egyptian Pharaoh, a sandbank formed which eventually formed the " great nation of Rome "-the nation that destroyed the Second Temple ( Herod's Temple ).

The Egyptian language, which formed a separate branch among the family of Afro-Asiatic languages, was among the first written languages, and is known from hieroglyphic inscriptions preserved on monuments and sheets of papyrus.

Necho also formed an Egyptian navy by recruiting displaced Ionian Greeks.

Egyptian filmmaker Essam Deraz, " bin Laden's first biographer ," met bin Laden in the " Lion's Den " training camp in Afghanistan and complained that the Egyptians " formed a barrier " around bin Laden and " whenever he tried to speak confidentially to bin Laden, the Egyptians would surround the Saudi and drag him into another room ".

Maat as a principle was formed to meet the complex needs of the emergent Egyptian state that embraced diverse peoples with conflicting interests.

In this year he was offered the command of the newly formed Egyptian army, which he accepted.

1984 was the year that Uncle Jamm's Army released their first single Dial-a-Freak and the year Egyptian Lover released his On the Nile album which includes the most listened 12 ' single Egypt Egypt. City of Compton former locking dancer Alonzo Williams formed his own electro-hop group World Class Wreckin ' Cru which included future N. W. A members Dr. Dre and DJ Yella.

Twenty-five thousand Egyptian engineers and workers formed the backbone of the workforce required to complete this tremendous project which deeply changed many aspects in Egypt.

The Treaty of 1936 called for the Egyptian army to fight under British command in the event of war and to supplement the limited force then at his disposal — an armoured division then being formed ( later to be the 7th Armoured Division ) and eight British battalions.

Robinson had been elected secretary of the International Committee for the Nag Hammadi Codices, which had been formed in 1970 by UNESCO and the Egyptian Ministry of Culture ; it was in this capacity that he oversaw the project.

Based on the traditional ghawazi and other folk styles and formed by western influences such as marching bands, the Russian ballet, Latin dance, etc., this hybrid style was performed in the cabarets of interbellum period Egypt and in early Egyptian cinema.

The story also formed part of the inspiration for the 1945 novel by Mika Waltari, and the 1954 Hollywood film epic, both titled The Egyptian, which although set during the reign of 18th dynasty pharaoh Akhenaten, features a lead character named Sinuhe who flees Egypt in disgrace, to return after achieving material success and personal redemption in foreign lands.

In 1879 they formed the Egyptian Nationalist Party.

The Greeks formed the Ptolemaic dynasty during their three-hundred-year rule over Egypt ( 305 to 30 BC ) and maintained the ancient religious customs and traditions, while often associating the Egyptian deities with their own.

The piazza, designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, is formed principally by two colonnades of free standing columns centred on an Egyptian obelisk.

In 1829, Town formed one of the first professional architectural firms in the United States with Alexander Jackson Davis, together producing notable buildings in a range of new Revival styles, including Greek, Gothic, Tuscan, and Egyptian.

To this we may need to add those of the Ne ' arin, for if they were not native Egyptian troops their number may not have been formed from chariots detached from the army corps.