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 Egyptians also believed in a place called the Duat, a mysterious region associated with death and rebirth, that may have lain in the underworld or in the sky.

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 ".

The Egyptians wanted more oversight in the Sudan and created specialized units of Sudanese auxiliaries within the Egyptian Army called Al-Awtirah.

From the time of the First dynasty or before, the Egyptians mined turquoise in Sinai at two locations, now called by their Arabic names Wadi Maghareh and Serabit el-Khadim.

The Egyptians called the circumpolar star ' the star that cannot perish ' and, although they made no known formal star catalogues, they nonetheless created extensive star charts of the night sky which adorn the coffins and ceilings of tomb chambers.

During the late 13th century BC the peoples of the Aegean Sea took to marauding and resettling as a way of life and were called by the Egyptians the Sea Peoples.

Originally, the phoenix was identified by the Egyptians as a stork or heron-like bird called a benu, known from the Book of the Dead and other Egyptian texts as one of the sacred symbols of worship at Heliopolis, closely associated with the rising sun and the Egyptian sun-god Ra.

Egyptians usually dry apricots, add sweetener, and then use them to make a drink called amar al-dīn.

Egyptians thought Cleopatra was a reincarnation of the goddess Isis, as she called herself Nea Isis.

The ancient Egyptians played a game called Senet, which belonged to the same family of " race games " as modern tables games, with moves controlled by the roll of dice.

Ignorant of the Egyptian language for the most part, the Arabs confused the Egyptian new year's celebrations, which the Egyptians called the feast of Ni-Yarouou ( the feast of the rivers ), with the Persian feast of Nowruz.

Wadjet ( or ; Egyptian, " green one "), known to the Greek world as Uto () or Buto () among other names, was originally the ancient local goddess of the city of Dep ( Buto ), which became part of the city that the Egyptians named Per-Wadjet, House of Wadjet, and the Greeks called Buto ( Desouk now ), a city that was an important site in the Predynastic era of Ancient Egypt and the cultural developments of the Paleolithic.

This time the Egyptians were victorious ; Baldwin lost most of his army including Stephen of Blois, but he himself escaped back to Arsuf on his horse ( unusual for this period, especially considering the high death rate of horses during the First Crusade and afterwards, the name of the horse has survived: she was called Gazala ).

The ancient Egyptians based their calendar on the heliacal rising of Sirius and devised a method of telling the time at night based on the heliacal risings of 36 stars called decan stars ( one for each 10 ° segment of the 360 ° circle of the zodiac / calendar ).

Egyptians make a product called samna baladi (, meaning " local ghee "; i. e., Egyptian ghee ) identical to ghee in terms of process and result.

Much later it was called Heru-im-Akhet ( Hârmachís ; " horus at the horizon ") by the Egyptians and Abu el-Hὀl (" father of terror ") by the Arabians.

Egyptian state television reported that Hawass called upon Egyptians not to believe the “ lies and fabrications ” of the Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya satellite television channels.

The forerunner of today's Lebkuchen was called the " honey cake " and its history can be traced back to the Egyptians, the Greeks, and the Romans.

( Then ) began his reign Feosta ( Hephaestus ), whom the Egyptians called Svarog … during his rule, from the heavens fell the smith ’ s prongs and weapons were forged for the first time ; before that, ( people ) fought with clubs and stones.

Feosta also commanded the women that they should have only a single husband … and that is why Egyptians called him Svarog … After him ruled his son, his name was the Sun, and they called him Dažbog … Sun tzar, son of Svarog, this is Dažbog.

( Then ) began his reign Feosta ( Hephaestus ), whom the Egyptians called Svarog … during his rule, from the heavens fell the smith ’ s prongs and weapons were forged for the first time ; before that, ( people ) fought with clubs and stones.

Feosta also commanded the women that they should have only a single husband … and that is why Egyptians called him Svarog … After him ruled his son, his name was the Sun, and they called him Dažbog … Sun tzar, son of Svarog, this is Dažbog.

The etymology is uncertain, but a strong candidate has long been some word related to the Biblical פוך ( pūk ), " paint " ( if not that word itself ), a cosmetic eye-shadow used by the ancient Egyptians and other inhabitants of the eastern Mediterranean.

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

The next sentence is often translated " Crantor adds, that this is testified by the prophets of the Egyptians, who assert that these particulars are narrated by Plato are written on pillars which are still preserved.

Manek states that Sungazing is the key to his health, citing the Jainist Tirthankara Mahavira, ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Native Americans as his inspiration.

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.

According to some ancient Greek collections, canons 29 and 30 are attributed to the council: canon 29, which states that an unworthy bishop cannot be demoted but can be removed, is an extract from the minutes of the 19th session ; canon 30, which grants the Egyptians time to consider their rejection of Leo's Tome, is an extract from the minutes of the fourth session.

Also forbidden are political parties supporting militia formations or having an agenda that is contradictory to the constitution and its principles, or threatening the country's stability such as national unity between Muslim Egyptians and Christian Egyptians.

Together with northern Somalia, Djibouti, and the Red Sea coast of Sudan, Eritrea is considered the most likely location of the land 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 third century AD, Flavius Philostratus wrote this: " For there is an ancient law in regard to the Red Sea, which the king Erythras laid down, when he held sway over that sea, to the effect that the Egyptians should not enter it with a vessel of war, and indeed should employ only a single merchant ship.

It is possible that only the Egyptian theologians fully recognized this underlying unity, but it is also possible that ordinary Egyptians identified the single divine force with a single god in particular situations.

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.

Revolving around an Englishman living in 1930s London named Robert Denvers who has recollections of a previous life as a Bronze Age Cypriot – an allusion to Gardner himself – the primary plot of A Goddess Arrives is set in ancient Cyprus and featured a queen, Dayonis, who practices sorcery in an attempt to help her people defend themselves from invading Egyptians.

How the Egyptians worked the solid granite is still a matter of debate.

And the second course of action led to my going to Pakistan a month or so after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, for the purpose of coordinating with the Pakistanis a joint response, the purpose of which would be to make the Soviets bleed for as much and as long as is possible ; and we engaged in that effort in a collaborative sense with the Saudis, the Egyptians, the British, the Chinese, and we started providing weapons to the Mujaheddin, from various sources again – for example, some Soviet arms from the Egyptians and the Chinese.

" This " Israel " was a cultural and probably political entity of the central highlands, well enough established to be perceived by the Egyptians as a possible challenge to their hegemony, but an ethnic group rather than an organised state ; Archaeologist Paula McNutt says: " It is probably ... during Iron Age I a population began to identify itself as ' Israelite '," differentiating itself from its neighbours via prohibitions on intermarriage, an emphasis on family history and genealogy, and religion.

Modern engineering as it is understood today took form during the scientific revolution, though much of the mathematics and science was built on the work of the Greeks, Egyptians, Mesopotamians, Chinese, Indians and Muslims.

Their lamentation was so great that it caught the attention of surrounding Canaanites who remarked “ This is a deep mourning of the Egyptians .” This spot was then named Abel Mizraim.

Egyptians may have referred to papyrus as pa-per-aa pr-ˁ3 ( that which is of Pharaoh ), apparently denoting the Egyptian crown as owning a monopoly on papyrus production.