In addition to languages spoken today, Afroasiatic includes several ancient languages, such as Ancient Egyptian, Akkadian, and Biblical Hebrew.

However, Ancient Egyptian is highly divergent from Proto-Afroasiatic ( Trombetti 1905: 1 – 2 ), and considerable time must have elapsed in between them.

The Greeks further identified the Ancient Egyptian goddess Hathor with Aphrodite.

Ancient Egyptian papyrus depicting the journey into the afterlife.

The afterlife played an important role in Ancient Egyptian religion, and its belief system is one of the earliest known.

Ancient Egyptian civilization was based on religion ; their belief in the rebirth after death became their driving force behind their funeral practices.

* Abydos, Egypt, an Ancient Egyptian city

It has recently been suggested that the regional decline at the end of the Akkadian period ( and First Intermediary Period of the Ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom ) was associated with rapidly increasing aridity, and failing rainfall in the region of the Ancient Near East, caused by a global centennial-scale drought.

The aegis also appears in Ancient Egyptian mythology.

Ancient Egyptian Magic.

In Ancient Egyptian architecture as early as 2600 BC the architect Imhotep made use of stone columns whose surface was carved to reflect the organic form of bundled reeds ; in later Egyptian architecture faceted cylinders were also common.

This calendar is in turn based on the old Egyptian calendar of Ancient Egypt.

* Ancient Egyptian Geography

* Comparison Between Ancient And Modern Egyptian Governments at Aldokkan

Ancient Egyptian texts dating from 2750 BC referred to these fish as the " Thunderer of the Nile ", and described them as the " protectors " of all other fish.

Ancient Egyptian religion was a complex system of polytheistic beliefs and rituals which were an integral part of ancient Egyptian society.

The beliefs and rituals now referred to as " Ancient Egyptian religion " existed within every aspect of Egyptian culture.

Ancient Egyptian religion was not a monolithic institution, but consisted of a vast and varying set of beliefs and practices, linked by their common focus on the interaction between the world of humans and the world of the divine.

Category: Ancient Egyptian pyramids

Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics record the cultivation of purple grapes, and history attests to the ancient Greeks, Phoenicians and Romans growing purple grapes for both eating and wine production.

An early example of the Golden Rule that reflects the Ancient Egyptian concept of Maat appears in the story of The Eloquent Peasant, which dates to the Middle Kingdom ( c. 2040 – 1650 BCE ): " Now this is the command: Do to the doer to cause that he do thus to you.

While the amount of winter snowfall varied greatly, the Ancient Pueblo depended on the snow for most of their water.

He is a character in Greek mythology and is mentioned in Homer's Iliad, and receives full treatment in Roman mythology as the legendary founder of what would become Ancient Rome, most extensively in Virgil's Aeneid.

Perhaps the most comprehensive of Ancient sources.

200 AD ) was a Peripatetic philosopher and the most celebrated of the Ancient Greek commentators on the writings of Aristotle.

Artemis was one of the most widely venerated of the Ancient Greek deities.

Formerly the Department of the Ancient Near East, with a collection numbering some 330, 000 works, the British Museum possesses by far the world's largest and most important collection of Mesopotamian antiquities outside Iraq.

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.

Adrienne Mayor, in introducing a bibliography on the topic, noted that most modern folklorists are largely unaware of classical parallels and precedents, in materials that are only partly represented by the familiar designation Aesopica: " Ancient Greek and Roman literature contains rich troves of folklore and popular beliefs, many of which have counterparts in modern contemporary legends " ( Such as Mayor, 2000 ).

In most dialects of Ancient Greek, aspect is indicated uniquely by verbal morphology.

This makes the battle one of the most catastrophic defeats in the history of Ancient Rome, and one of the bloodiest battles in all of human history ( in terms of the number of lives lost within a single day ).

One of his most remarkably inventive works is the Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner ( 1839 ) based on Samuel Coleridge's famous poem, which recently sold at Sotheby's for ₤ 27, 000.

In Road to Xanadu ( 1927 ), a book length study of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, John Livingston Lowes claimed that the poems were " two of the most remarkable poems in English ".

The Royal Library of Alexandria, or Ancient Library of Alexandria, in Alexandria, Egypt, was the largest and most significant library of the ancient world.

He finished Titus Groan and Gormenghast and completed some of his most acclaimed illustrations for books by other authors, including Lewis Carroll's Hunting of the Snark ( for which he was reportedly paid only £ 5 ) and Alice in Wonderland, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the Brothers Grimm's Household Tales, All This and Bevin Too by Quentin Crisp and Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, as well as producing many original poems, drawings, and paintings.

The art of Mesopotamia rivalled that of Ancient Egypt as the most grand, sophisticated and elaborate in western Eurasia from the 4th millennium BC until the Persian Achaemenid Empire conquered the region in the 6th century BC.

The gold mines of Nubia were among the largest and most extensive of any in Ancient Egypt, and are described by the Greek author Diodorus Siculus.

For some, the primary instrument of choice was either the aulos or the lyre ( the latter of which was the most revered instrument to the Ancient Greeks ).

* Calum Colvin: " Ossian: Fragments of Ancient Poetry " Reproduction of the cycle of paintings " Ossian: Fragments of Ancient Poetry " ( 2002 ) by one of Scotland's most renowned contemporary artists

Ancient China was home to several competing schools of political thought, most of which arose in the Spring and Autumn Period.

Many of these " Literary RPGs " are fan-fiction based, such as ( most prevalently ) Tolkien's Middle-earth, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Twilight, any number of anime and manga sources, or they are simply based in thematic worlds such as the mythologies of Ancient Greece, fairy tales, the Renaissance or science fiction.

The word Panthera is probably of Oriental origin and retraceable to the Ancient Greek word panther, the Latin word panthera, the Old French word pantere, most likely meaning " the yellowish animal ", or from pandarah meaning whitish-yellow.

Seeking to restore the glory of Ancient Rome, he ruled Italy in its most peaceful and prosperous period since Valentinian, until his death in 526.

At the UPenn Museum the exhibition Iraq's Ancient Past, which includes many of the most famous pieces from the Royal Tombs, is expected to be open to visitors in late Spring 2011.

One of Wordsworth's most famous poems, " Tintern Abbey ", was published in the work, along with Coleridge's " The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ".