Others have argued that the Ancient Egyptians had no concept of pi and would not have thought to encode it in their monuments.

However, after the troops had left in 1954 and the Egyptians nationalised the Canal in 1956, Powell opposed the British attempts to retake the Canal in the Suez Crisis because he thought the British no longer had the resources to be a world power.

The Egyptians thought air came in through the mouth and into the lungs and heart.

The constant comments of the Romans about Cleopatra often undermine her, representing the Roman thought on the foreign and particularly of Egyptians.

The 17th-century Jesuit, Athanasius Kircher, thought that the Chinese had also descended from Ham, via Egyptians.

The Egyptians practiced a number of rituals and superstitions that were thought to ward off Apep, and aid Ra to continue his journey across the sky.

She was seen as a goddess who had chosen to adopt the city, and consequently depicted as the Egyptian white vulture, a creature that the Egyptians thought only existed as females ( not knowing that, lacking sexual dimorphism, the males are identical ).

Egyptians thought activating the power of the soul was how magic worked.

To ancient Egyptians, it was the heart and not the brain that was the seat of emotion, thought, will and intention.

When the Egyptians conquered Sinai, he was also thought to guard the turquoise mines, which predominantly lay within Sinai.

Petrie, who was also affiliated with a variety of far right-wing groups and anti-democratic thought in England and was a dedicated believer in the superiority of the Northern peoples over the Latinate and Southern peoples ( Silberman, 1999 ), derided Budge's belief that the ancient Egyptians were an African people with roots in eastern Africa as impossible and " unscientific ", as did his followers.

The Egyptians are thought to have been one of the first civilizations to work gold.

After his conquest of ancient Egypt, he allowed himself to be depicted on the obverse of coins as a god-king, at least partly because he thought this would help secure the allegiance of the Egyptians, who had regarded their previous monarchs, the pharaohs, as divine.

The Hittite king Muwatalli, who had mustered several of his allies ( among them Rimisharrinaa, the king of Aleppo ), had positioned his troops behind " Old Kadesh ", but Ramesses, misled by two spies whom the Egyptians had captured, thought the Hittite forces were still far off, at Aleppo, and ordered his forces to set up camp.

Marianne Luban quotes Diodorus Siculus: " A man of obscure origin was chosen king, whom the Egyptians call ' Ketes ', but who among the Greeks is thought to be that Proteus who lived at the time of the war about Ilium.

The shape of Egyptian pyramids is thought to represent the primordial mound from which the Egyptians believed the earth was created.

A 14th-century reference to a placename ( Агѹповы клѣти, Agupovy klěti ) in the Rila Charter of Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria is thought to be related to the Balkan Egyptians according to some authors, such as Konstantin Josef Jireček.

For example, it used to be thought that Greeks, who wrote left to right, thought differently than Egyptians since the Egyptians wrote right to left.

From the earliest periods of Egyptian history, all Egyptians were buried with at least some burial goods that they thought were necessary after death.

However, the anthropic nature of the various deities that were worshiped differed among other peoples like the Egyptians and Babylonians, who sometimes thought that their gods could take an array of forms, some non-human.

The Egyptian vulture, most sacred to the ancient Egyptians and symbolizing Nekhbet, one of the Two Ladies protecting Egypt, was thought to reproduce though parthenogenesis also.

The Egyptians and Hindus made some use of ornamental footwear, such as a soleless sandal known as a " Cleopatra ", which did not provide any practical protection for the foot.

The Egyptians and Hindus at times wore ornamental footwear, such as a soleless sandal known as a " Cleopatra ", which did not provide any practical protection for the feet.

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

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.

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.

The first mention of aeronautics in history was in the writings of ancient Egyptians who described the flight of birds.

**" Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians " ( 7: 22 )

The Egyptians, Plato asserted, described Atlantis as an island comprising mostly mountains in the northern portions and along the shore, and encompassing a great plain of an oblong shape in the south " extending in one direction three thousand stadia 555 km ; 345 mi, but across the center inland it was two thousand stadia 370 km ; 230 mi.

Saint Shenouda was a popular leader who only spoke to the Egyptians in Egyptian language ( Coptic ), the language of the repressed, not in Greek, the language of the rulers.

In 601 BC Nebuchadnezzar II was involved in a major, but inconclusive battle, against the Egyptians.

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

When the church was founded by Saint Mark during the reign of the Roman emperor Nero, a great multitude of native Egyptians ( as opposed to Greeks or Jews ) embraced the Christian faith.

Djibouti was home to an old civilization, together with northern Somalia, Eritrea, and the Red Sea coast of Sudan, was known to the Ancient Egyptians as Punt ( or " Ta Netjeru ," meaning god's land ), whose first mention dates to the 25th century BC

Emperor Yohannes IV believed this included Massawa, but instead, the port was handed by the Egyptians and the British to the Italians, who united it with the already colonised port of Asseb to form a coastal Italian possession.

His black skin was symbolic of the color of mummified flesh and the fertile black soil that Egyptians saw as a symbol of resurrection.

Therefore, although the Egyptians recognized that the pharaoh was human and subject to human weakness, they simultaneously viewed him as a god, because the divine power of kingship was incarnated in him.

However, it was also important that the body of the deceased be preserved, as the Egyptians believed that the ba returned to its body each night to receive new life, before emerging in the morning as an akh.

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.

In addition, wealthy ancient Egyptians grew vineyards, as wine was a sign of the higher social classes.

In 1838 there was another revolt by the Druze and in 1840 the Egyptians withdrew, returning the area to Ottoman governorship.

Politically and culturally it was dominated by Egypt, each city under its own ruler, constantly at odds with its neighbours, and appealing to the Egyptians to adjudicate their differences.

" 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.