The foreign population reportedly includes 1. 6 million Indians, 1. 5 million Pakistanis, 1. 2 million Filipinos, 1 million Bangladeshis, 1 million Egyptians, 600, 000 Indonesians, 400, 000 Sri Lankans, 350, 000 Nepalese, 250, 000 Palestinians, 150, 000 Lebanese, 100, 000 Eritreans, and 30, 000 Americans.

The party has also reportedly been weakened by " missteps " that have alienated " many Egyptians " and reportedly played into the government's hands.

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.

Amethyst was used as a gemstone by the ancient Egyptians and was largely employed in antiquity for intaglio engraved gems.

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.

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

Many ancient cultures, including the ancient Egyptians and ancient Greeks, used specially selected mold and plant materials and extracts to treat infections.

Egyptians used papyrus to make sales messages and wall posters.

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

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.

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

Arabs learned the process from the Egyptians and used it extensively in their chemical experiments.

The ancient Egyptians had a thoroughly developed system for the acquisition of intelligence, and the Hebrews used spies as well, as in the story of Rahab.

Verner wrote, " We can conclude that although the ancient Egyptians could not precisely define the value of π, in practice they used it ".

The Royal Navy used Gatling guns against the Egyptians at Alexandria in 1882.

Dr. Patrick Hunt has postulated that the Egyptians used emery shown to have higher hardness on the Mohs scale.

The ancient Egyptians credited one of their gods, Thoth, with the invention of music, which Osiris in turn used as part of his effort to civilize the world.

At first, Egyptians used the bright green malachite stones for ornamentations and pottery.

This dates back at least to the ancient Egyptians, who used a wholly decimal system.

Ancient Egyptians used obsidian imported from the eastern Mediterranean and southern Red Sea regions.

Ancient Egyptians used this plant as a writing material and for boats, mattresses, mats, rope, sandals, and baskets.

The Ancient Egyptians covered the faces of pyramids with polished white limestone, containing great quantities of fossilized seashells .< ref > Viegas, J., Pyramids packed with fossil shells, ABC News in Science, < www. abc. net. au / science / articles / 2008 / 04 / 28 / 2229383. htm ></ ref > Many of the facing stones have fallen or have been removed and used to build the mosques of Cairo.

It was probably an application of spiral movement in space ( spirals were a special study of Archimedes ) to a hollow segmented water-wheel used for irrigation by Egyptians for centuries.

The Egyptians used herbs for embalming and their need for exotic herbs helped stimulate world trade.

From their existing records, it is known that the ancient Egyptians recorded the names of only a few identifiable constellations and a list of thirty-six decans that were used as a star clock.

Ancient Egyptians used thyme for embalming.

Hippocrates ( 460-377 BC ) prescribed it for curing pleurisy, fever, ulcers, and constipation ; it was used by the ancient Egyptians to kill bacteria.

They spread its use into North Africa where it was adopted by Mamluk Egyptians and the Sudanese who produced it until the early 20th century.

The Greek historian and geographer Agatharchides had documented ship-faring among the early Egyptians: " During the prosperous period of the Old Kingdom, between the 30th and 25th centuries B. C., the river-routes were kept in order, and Egyptian ships sailed the Red Sea as far as the myrrh-country.

The Hittites, the Egyptians and the Proto-Celtic Hallstatt culture ( 8th century BC ) figured among the early users of iron swords.

Scurvy was documented as a disease by Hippocrates, and Egyptians have recorded its symptoms as early as 1550 BC.

Tempera painting has been found on early Egyptians sarcophagi decorations.

" The early Egyptians were developers of bread and the use of the oven and developed baking into one of the first large-scale food production industries.

By the early Middle Kingdom ( c. 2055 – 1650 BC ), non-royal Egyptians believed that they, too, could overcome death as Osiris had, by worshipping him and receiving the funerary rites that were partly based on his myth.

As early as 4000 BC, ancient Egyptians were playing harps and flutes, as well as two indigenous instruments: the ney and the oud.

The Egyptians were early pioneers of the idea, as shown by the wooden toe found on a body from the New Kingdom.

Mongols, Scythians, early Egyptians and various Mesoamerican chiefs could take most of their household, including servants and concubines, with them to the next world.

According to Walker, the early Ptolemaic Greek colonists married local women and adopted Egyptian religious beliefs, and by Roman times, their descendants were viewed as Egyptians by the Roman rulers, despite their own self-perception of being Greek.

Evidence from Ancient Egypt shows that the early Egyptians knew how to assemble planks of wood into a ship hull as early as 3000 BC.

The majority of these antiquarians also refused to believe that it was ancient peoples native to Ireland who built the monument, with many believing that it had been built in the early Mediaeval period by invading Vikings, whilst others speculated that it had been actually built by the Ancient Egyptians, ancient Indians or the Phoenicians.

A tablet from the reign of First Dynasty King Djer ( c. 3000 BC ) was conjectured by early Egyptologists to indicate that the Egyptians had already established a link between the heliacal rising of Sirius ( Egyptian Sopdet, Greek Σείριος Seirios ) and the beginning of the year.

The same Gospel was in use among the Ebionites, and in fact, as almost all critics are agreed, the Gospel according to the Hebrews, under various names, such as the Gospel according to Peter, according to the Apostles, the Nazarenes, Ebionites, Egyptians, & c, with modifications certainly, but substantially the same work, was circulated very widely throughout the early Church.

23 July 2010 < http :// kids. britannica. com / comptons / article-206069 / paint-and-varnish >.</ ref > The ancient Egyptians were well acquainted with the art of varnishing, but its origin appears to be far east of there in India, China and Japan, where the practice of lacquer work, a species of varnish application, was known at a very early date.

Skelton informs us that one of the early dyes discovered by the ancient Egyptians was " blue woad ( Isatis tinctoria ).

Autopsies that opened the body to determine the cause of death were attested at least in the early third millennium BC, although they were opposed in many ancient societies where it was believed that the outward disfigurement of dead persons prevented them from entering the afterlife ( as with the Egyptians, who removed the organs through tiny slits in the body ).

Continued desiccation forced the early ancestors of the Egyptians to settle around the Nile more permanently and forced them to adopt a more sedentary lifestyle.

This style of footwear has been worn by many cultures throughout the world, originating as early as the ancient Egyptians in 4, 000 B. C.

Leaf springs have been around since the early Egyptians.

A depiction of early manicures and pedicures was found on a carving from a pharaoh ’ s tomb, and the Egyptians were known for paying special attention to their feet and legs.