Shu (; meaning " emptiness " and " he who rises up ") was one of the primordial gods in Egyptian mythology, a personification of air, one of the Ennead of Heliopolis.

During this time, urban Cairo, spurred by new bridges and transport links, continued to expand to include the upscale neighborhoods of Garden City, Zamalek, and Heliopolis.

The eight green columns, I learned, came from the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, the others, red, from the Temple of the Sun at Heliopolis.

* Heliopolis (" Sun city "), Egypt

The Romans renamed Baalbek " Heliopolis " and built an impressive temple complex, including temples to Bacchus, Jupiter, Venus, and the Sun.

According to Diodorus Siculus, Actis built the city of Heliopolis in Egypt to honour his father Helios.

27th century BC ( circa 2650 – 2600 BC ) ( Egyptian meaning " the one who comes in peace, is with peace "), was an Egyptian polymath, who served under the Third Dynasty king Djoser as chancellor to the pharaoh and high priest of the sun god Ra at Heliopolis.

In Egyptian mythology, in the Ennead system of Heliopolis, the first couple, apart from Shu and Tefnut ( moisture and dryness ) and Geb and Nuit ( earth and sky ), are Isis and Osiris.

In some stories, the new phoenix embalms the ashes of its old self in an egg made of myrrh and deposits it in the Egyptian city of Heliopolis ( literally " sun-city " in Greek ).

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.

According to Plutarch, he spent some time and discussed philosophy with two Egyptian priests, Psenophis of Heliopolis and Sonchis of Sais.

Her name is translated to mean ' sky ' and she is considered one of the oldest deities among the Egyptian pantheon, with her origin being found on the creation story of Heliopolis.

Atum's cult centered on the city of Heliopolis ( Egyptian: Annu ).

Nephthys ( or ) or Nebthet () is a member of the Great Ennead of Heliopolis in Egyptian mythology, a daughter of Nut and Geb.

Among Egyptian pesedjets, the most important was the Great Pesedjet, also called the Ennead of Heliopolis, after its centre of worship.

Heliopolis ( Egyptian: Aunu, " place of pillars ") was dedicated to the worship of the god Atum and thrived from the Old Kingdom until its decline under the Ptolemaic rulers.

In Egyptian mythology, Nebethetepet was the manifestation of Hathor at Heliopolis.

In late Egyptian mythology, Mnevis ( also written Mer-wer ) was an aspect of the chief god in the region of Heliopolis, Atum-Ra.

They were originally erected in the Egyptian city of Heliopolis on the orders of Thutmose III, around 1450 BC.

The Cairo Electric Railways & Heliopolis Oases Company (), is the original name of the Heliopolis Company for Housing and Development (), a company formed in Cairo in 1906 in a partnership between a consortium of Belgian developers led by Édouard Empain and Boghos Nubar Pasha, son of the former Egyptian Prime Minister Nubar Nubarian.

Not only did the company build a great number of houses and apartments, but also the Heliopolis Palace Hotel ( which is now the Egyptian Presidential Palace ), restaurants, shops, churches, mosques, and hospitals.

* On, a name in Genesis in the Bible ( in " Potiphar priest of On "), thought in older times to be a name of Osiris ( but now known by Egyptologists to be the Hebrew form of the Ancient Egyptian name of the city of Heliopolis ).

* Heliopolis ( ancient ), an ancient city in Egypt, from a transliteration of its ancient Egyptian name

It is possible that memories of these events were distortedly reported in the third century BCE by the Hellenistic Egyptian historian and priest, Manetho, who claimed that a certain Egyptian priest from Heliopolis called Osarseph, led leprous Asiatics out of Egypt, in an Exodus later reportedly that of Moses.

Under Psamtik II's reign, a pair of more than 21. 79 metre high obelisks were erected in the temple of Heliopolis ; the first Emperor of Rome, Augustus later had one of the obelisks, which had probably been thrown down by the Persian invaders in 525 BC, brought to Rome in 10 BC.

c. late 15th century BC ), probably a son of the 18th dynasty pharaoh Amenhotep II ; High Priest of Re in Heliopolis during the reign of his brother, Thutmose IV

The computer goes on to say that Redjac may have been responsible for other killings, both on Earth ( seven women in Shanghai, China, Earth, in 1932 ; five similar murders in Kiev, U. S. S. R., Earth, in 1974 ) and other planets ; there were eight murders of women in the Martian Colonies in 2105 and ten murders of women in Heliopolis, Alpha Eridani II in 2156.

The other city was Ramses ; and the Septuagint adds a third, " On, which is Heliopolis.

* Bohak, Gideon, Joseph and Aseneth and the Jewish Temple in Heliopolis ( Early Judaism and Its Literature 10 ; Atlanta, Ga .: Scholars Press, 1996 ).

Thus on February 21, 1954 the name of the university was changed to " Heliopolis ", and then changed in the same year to its present name " Ain Shams ", the Arabic name for " Heliopolis ", or " O ' n ", which was the oldest university in history.

On leaving Antioch he appointed Alexander of Heliopolis as governor, a violent and cruel man whom the Antiochene Libanius, a friend of the emperor, admits on first thought was a " dishonourable " appointment.

At the time the two of us were in Heliopolis and we both witnessed the extraordinary phenomenon of the moon hiding the sun at the time that was out of season for their coming together ... We saw the moon begin to hide the sun from the east, travel across to the other side of the sun, and return on its path so that the hiding and the restoration of the light did not take place in the same direction but rather in diametrically opposite directions ..."

When the cult of Ra rose to prominence, with its cult center at Heliopolis, Ra was identified with the similar deity, Horus.

Thus, the role of spouse to Isis was open and in the Heliopolis pantheon, Isis became the wife of Osiris and the mother of Horus / Ra.

In the mythology of Heliopolis, Set was born of the sky goddess Nut and the earth god Geb.

The Canaanite equivalent of Ishtar was Astarte, and according to the contemporary Christian writer Eusebius temple prostitution was still being carried on in the Phoenician cities of Aphaca and Heliopolis ( Baalbek ) until closed down by the emperor Constantine in the 4th century.

The principal shrine in Moab was Beyt-baal-me ’ on, which means “ house / shrine of the baal / master / god of On .” The principal shrine of On was in the sacred city of Heliopolis in Egypt and Joseph married one of the daughters of the high priest of On.

Enriched by centuries of veneration, the temple was one of the three foremost places of worship in Ancient Egypt, the others being the great temples of Ra in Heliopolis, and of Amun in Thebes.

He was created by Atum, his father and Iusaaset, his mother in the city of Heliopolis.

: Atum was creative in that he proceeded to masturbate himself in Heliopolis.

At Heliopolis, Tefnut was one of the members of that city's great Ennead, and is referred to in relation to the purification of the wabet ( priest ) as part of the temple rite.

This role may have stemmed from an early association in her native Heliopolis, which was renowned for its " House of the Bennu " temple.

Heliopolis was the location of her principal sanctuary.

The Great Harris Papyrus or Papyrus Harris I, which was commissioned by his son and chosen successor Ramesses IV, chronicles this king's vast donations of land, gold statues and monumental construction to Egypt's various temples at Piramesse, Heliopolis, Memphis, Athribis, Hermopolis, This, Abydos, Coptos, El Kab and other cities in Nubia and Syria.