Even though the stone had been around centuries and was known to both the Sumerians and the Egyptians, both who used the gem for decoration and for playing important parts in their religious ceremonies, any agate of this color from Sicily, once an ancient Greek colony, is called Greek agate.

The first known tool used to aid arithmetic calculations was the Abacus, devised by Sumerians and Egyptians before 2000 BC.

* Copper alloys used by Egyptians and Sumerians ; smelting of gold and silver known.

The cedar oil of the ancients, in particular the Sumerians and Egyptians, was derived from the Cedar of Lebanon, a true cedar native to the northern and western mountains of the middle east.

Attempts at producing a state of general anaesthesia can be traced throughout recorded history in the writings of the ancient Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Indians, and Chinese.

The Ancient Egyptians worshiped a number of snake gods, including Apophis and Set, and the Sumerians before them had a serpent god Ningizzida.

The Indians, Egyptians, Chinese, and Sumerians are just a few civilizations that have provided evidence suggesting that foods can be effectively used as medicine to treat and prevent disease.

The Assyrians had better success than the Egyptians, annexing much Hittite ( and also Hurrian ) territories in these regions.

4 ) admits a preference of ' barbarous ' to vernacular names in sacred things, urging a peculiar sanctity in the languages of certain nations, as the Egyptians and Assyrians ; and Origen ( Contra Cels.

In the years before Jesus, Sidon had many conquerors: Assyrians, Babylonians, Egyptians, Greeks, and finally Romans.

flared among the neighboring Assyrians, Hurrians, and Egyptians.

The chariots of the Egyptians and Assyrians, with whom the bow was the principal arm of attack, were richly mounted with quivers full of arrows.

Soldiers of many nationalities served in the armies of Xerxes, including the Assyrians, Phoenicians, Babylonians, Egyptians and Jews.

In the course of its history, it has been ruled by the Canaanites, the Philistines, the Israelites, the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Greeks, the Phoenicians, the Romans, the Persians, the Egyptians and the Crusaders, until it was destroyed by the Mamluks in 1270.

" This kingdom was known as the Maryannu, Nahrin or Mitanni to the Egyptians, Hurri to the Hittites and Hanigalbat to the Assyrians.

At the same time, the diplomatic relationship with Egypt went cold, the Egyptians fearing the growing power of the Hittites and Assyrians.

The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians.

The pepla are a specific class of Italian adventure or fantasy films that have subjects set in Biblical, medieval or classical antiquity, often with contrived plots based very loosely on mythology, legendary Greco-Roman history, or the other contemporary cultures of the time, such as the Egyptians, Assyrians, Etruscans, etc.

A major city of ancient Caria, Muğla is known to have been occupied by raiding parties of Egyptians, Assyrians and Scythians, until eventually the area was settled by Ancient Greek colonists.

Most were Persians, Arabs, Moors, Assyrians, and Egyptians.

Hawkes noted that very little if any evidence of a Minoan male ruler exists, whereas abundant evidence of such rulers existed among the Egyptians, Hittites, Assyrians and other Minoan contemporaries.

The Egyptians and Assyrians together crossed the Euphrates and laid siege to Harran, which they failed to re-take.

Isaiah walked naked and barefoot to show how the Egyptians and Ethiopians would be treated when taken captive by the Assyrians, while Jeremiah wore a yoke upon his neck to induce the nations to submit to the King of Assyria.

Images of tetramorphs, unions of different elements into one symbol, were originally used by the Ancient Egyptians, Assyrians, and Greeks.

The Egyptians and Assyrians in particular were the first to attach wings to their divine images.

Necho I, the father of Psamtik by his Queen Istemabet, was the chief of these kinglets, but they seem to have been quite unable to hold the Egyptians to the hated Assyrians against the more sympathetic Nubians.

Over the ages it has been known as " Robihwa " by the ancient Egyptians, " Rafihu " by the Assyrians, " Ῥαφία, Rhaphia " by the Greeks, " Raphia " by Romans, "" Rafiach by the Israelites, " Rafh " by the Arab Caliphate.

* The Chronology of the Bible connected with Contemporaneous Events in the History of Babylonians, Assyrians and Egyptians ( 1874 )

However, the passage over the ridge of hills which shuts in on the south of the great Jezreel Valley was blocked by the Judean army led by Josiah, who may have considered that the Assyrians and Egyptians were weakened by the death of the pharaoh Psamtik I only a year earlier ( 610 BC ), who had been appointed and confirmed by Assyrian kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal.

the abominations and idolatries of the Egyptians and Assyrians.

Beer was brewed by the Babylonians and Egyptians more than 6 thousand years ago.

The earliest written records indicate the Egyptians and Babylonians used all the elementary arithmetic operations as early as 2000 BC.

For example, both the Egyptians and the Babylonians were aware of versions of the Pythagorean theorem about 1500 years before Pythagoras ; the Egyptians had a correct formula for the volume of a frustum of a square pyramid ;

The Egyptians and Babylonians both introduced the concepts of diagnosis, prognosis, and medical examination.

Opium production continued under the Babylonians and Egyptians.

Sun goddesses are found around the world ; in Arabia ( Al-Lat ), Australia ( Bila, Walo ), India ( Bisal-Mariamna, Bomong, Kn Sgni ) and Sri Lanka ( Pattini ); among the Hittites ( Wurusemu ), Egyptians ( Sekhmet ) and Babylonians ( Shapash ); in Native America, among the Cherokee ( Unelanuhi ), Natchez ( Wal Sil ), Inuit ( Malina ) and Miwok ( Hekoolas ).

The Babylonians pursue the Egyptians through Syria and Palestine.

Additionally, unlike the Egyptians and Romans, the Babylonians had a true place-value system, where digits written in the left column represented larger values ( much as in our base-ten system: 734 = 7 × 100 + 3 × 10 + 4 × 1 ).

It is at this stage of development that highly codified and elaborate rituals, setting the stage for formal religions, began to emerge, such as the funeral rites of the Egyptians and the sacrifice rituals of the Babylonians, Persians, Aztecs and Mayans.

Defining the difference between the Greek quest for knowledge and the quests of the elder civilizations, such as the ancient Egyptians and Babylonians, has long been a topic of study by theorists of civilization.

However, the Egyptians were defeated by the unexpected attack of the Babylonians and were eventually expelled from Syria.

In response, in 606 BC the Egyptians attacked the leaderless Babylonians ( probably then led by the crown prince Nebuchadrezzar ) who fled their position.

Orthogonality is a concept that has undergone a huge amount of generalization in mathematics, science, and engineering over the many centuries of time since the Ancient Babylonians, Ancient Egyptians, and Ancient Greeks.

These concepts date back to the Ancient Babylonians Egyptians, where orthogonality was a useful concept in civil engineering.

It was reserved for his edition of Manilius ( 1579 ), and his De emendatione temporum ( 1583 ), to revolutionize perceived ideas of ancient chronology — to show that ancient history is not confined to that of the Greeks and Romans, but also comprises that of the Persians, the Babylonians and the Egyptians, hitherto neglected, and that of the Jews, hitherto treated as a thing apart ; and that the historical narratives and fragments of each of these, and their several systems of chronology, must be critically compared.

It is at this stage of development that highly codified and elaborate rituals, setting the stage for formal religions, began to emerge, such as the funeral rites of the Egyptians and the sacrifice rituals of the Babylonians, Persians, Aztecs, and Maya civilizations.

Cubic equations were known to ancient Greek mathematician Diophantus ; even earlier to ancient Babylonians who were able to solve certain cubic equations ; and also to the ancient Egyptians.

It was used as a placeholder by the Babylonians and Greek Egyptians, and then as an integer by the Mayans, Indians and Arabs.

The Babylonians, Mayans, ancient Egyptians, ancient Indians, and Chinese measured all the basics of their respective time and calendar systems by naked eye: