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.

Though today an Arabic-speaking people, that aspect constitutes for Egyptians a cultural dimension of their identity, not a necessary attribute of or prop for their national political being.

" Sarcophagi were undoubtedly used by the Egyptians prior to the building of the Great Pyramid, but it was not until after the days of Trajan that the Greeks and Romans produced the monumental and richly sculptured examples which are found in the museums of Europe today.

Even today, she has retained a near-mythical status among young Egyptians.

The Egyptians also painted on linen, remnants of which survive today.

Drawing on the principles first put to use in large wooden locks built by ancient Egyptians, Yale patented a pin tumbler lock for use in banks in 1851 ; he patented his pin tumbler lock for use in doors in 1863 ; in 1865 he patented the pin tumbler padlock, which are still widely used today.

Although the overwhelming majority of Egyptians today continue to self-identify as Arabs in a cultural sense, a minority reject this, pointing to the failures of Arab and pan-Arab nationalist policies, and even publicly voicing objection to the present official name of the country.

Egyptians today commonly refer to the people of the north as () and to those of the south as ().

The ancient Egyptians recorded prescribed treatments for snakebites as early as the Thirteenth dynasty in the Brooklyn Papyrus, which includes at least seven venomous species common to the region today, such as the horned vipers.

Most Egyptians still use this system today.

The most famous part of the Book of Gates today refers to the different races of humanity known to the Egyptians, dividing them up into four categories that are now conventionally labelled " Egyptians ", " Asiatics ", " Libyans ", and " Nubians ".

" Later, after saying modern buildings rarely last more than fifty years, he continues: " The ages-old stone buildings of the Egyptians and the Romans still stand today as powerful architectural proofs of the past of great nations, buildings which are often ruins only because man's lust for destruction has made them such.

Similar to the Saudi Aramco workforce, the Abqaiq community today is now a multiethnic community that comprises Saudis, Egyptians, Jordanians, and people from virtually every one of the world ’ s continents, with English as the common language.

The blow pipe was used by the Egyptians at around 200 BCE and to today.

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.

The Egyptians often grouped gods together to reflect these relationships.

Ancient Egyptians often kept cheetahs as pets, and also tamed and trained them for hunting.

When searching for or mourning Osiris, the two goddesses are often likened to falcons or kites, possibly because kites travel far in search of carrion, because the Egyptians associated their plaintive calls with mourning, or because of the goddesses ' connection with Horus, who is often represented as a falcon.

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

However, to the ancient Egyptians, Min was not a matter of scandal-they had very relaxed standards of nudity: in their warm climate, farmers, servants, and entertainers often worked partially or completely naked, and children did not wear any clothes until they came of age.

The ancient Egyptians often carried small statuettes of him as good-luck charms.

One aspect of ancient Egyptian funerary literature which often is mistaken for a codified ethic of Maat is Spell ( Chapter ) 125 of the Book of the Dead or Papyrus of Ani ( known to the ancient Egyptians as The Book of Going Forth by Day ).

The highest ranking Ancient Egyptians grew hair on their chins which was often dyed or hennaed ( reddish brown ) and sometimes plaited with interwoven gold thread.

Many of the calamities can be mitigated by specific civilization cards, such as Engineering ( good vs. flood ); this specific card is often purchased by the Egyptians, whose homeland is flood-prone.

The ancient Egyptians wrote epistles, most often for pedagogical reasons.

Though it is often claimed that the Egyptians used roller bearings in the form of tree trunks under sleds this is modern speculation.

In ancient times Nubians were depicted by Egyptians as having very dark skin, often shown with hooped earrings and with braided or extended hair.

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.

The ancient Egyptians applied enamels to pottery and stone objects, and sometimes jewelry, though the last less often than other ancient Middle Eastern cultures.

It is a genuine love that often reveals itself in her distaste for Europeans that view Egyptians with either condescension or disgust.

The ancient Egyptians used sums of distinct unit fractions in their notation for more general rational numbers, and so such sums are often called Egyptian fractions.

Among the Egyptians ' and Hebrews ' neighbors in the Ancient Near East and in the Aegean, the Aurochs, the wild bull, was widely worshipped, often as the Lunar Bull and as the creature of El.

Egyptian Ibis Statue, Copenhagen MuseumVenerated and often mummified by Ancient Egyptians as a symbol of the god Thoth, the Ibis was according to Herodotus and Pliny the Elder also invoked against incursions of winged serpents.

The Egyptians often referred to the sun and the moon as the " eye " s of particular gods.

The Egyptians often described the sun's movement across the sky as the movement of a barque carrying Ra and his entourage of other gods, and the sun disk can either be equated with this solar barque or depicted containing the barque inside it.

Traditionally, within the spiritualist churches, spirit guides were often stereotyped ethnically, with Native Americans, Chinese or Egyptians being popular for their perceived ancient wisdom.

given of the Egyptian trades three thousand years ago, the following: Boxes, chairs, tables, etc., were often made of ebony inlaid with ivory, sycamore, and acacia veneering with thin layers and carved devices of rare woods added as ornament on inferior surfaces ; and a fondness for display induced the Egyptians to paint common boards to imitate foreign varieties so generally practiced at the present day.

In addition to its formal name, Egyptians also refer to it affectionately as the " Land of Fayrouz ", based on the Ancient Egyptian " Dumafkat ", which has the same meaning.

* Seir-" Prince " in Ancient Egyptian, a name used by the Egyptians to refer the god of the dead known to the Greeks as Osiris.

The term " Seir " was also used by the Egyptians to refer to the constellation Orion, which was considered to be a representation of the god Osiris in the heavens.

Arabic-speaking modern Egyptians refer to their country as Miṣr.

In the Book of Exodus when God is speaking to the Israelites through Moses he uses ( in the English translation of the Bible ) the plural of you, ye, to refer to them: “ Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians …” ( Exodus 19. 4 ).

* Noa is used by native Egyptians residing on the Mediterranean in their common dialect to refer to " the strong wind coming from the sea ".