The earliest references to Nubia's successor kingdoms are contained in accounts by Greek and Egyptian Coptic authors of the conversion of Nubian kings to Christianity in the 6th century AD.

It is listed in Egyptian campaign accounts and the Amarna letters as Pel, Sela or Seir.

In Egyptian accounts, the pregnant Isis hides from Set, to whom the unborn child is a threat, in a thicket of papyrus in the Nile Delta.

In Egyptian campaign accounts, the term Djahi was used to refer to the watershed of the Jordan river.

His explanation accounts for the Samaritan and the Septuagint sharing variants not found in the Masoretic and their differences reflecting the period of their independent development as distinct Egyptian and Palestinian local text traditions.

Although accounts of the process differ, Smith is said to have translated the reformed Egyptian characters engraved on golden plates into English through various means including the use of a seer stone or the Urim and Thummim, or both.

Some of the first historical accounts of Egypt were given by Herodotus, Strabo, Diodorus Siculus and the largely lost work of Manetho, an Egyptian priest, during the reign of Ptolemy I and Ptolemy II in the 3rd century BC.

Similarly, the 15th-century Egyptian historian al-Maqrizi wrote detailed accounts of Egyptian antiquities.

Egyptian rule was relatively benign ( by some accounts Muhammad Ali had either been born or spent his infancy on Thasos ) and the island became prosperous, until 1908, when the New Turk regime asserted Turkish control.

In Ancient Egyptian creation accounts the original mound of land comes forth from the waters of the Nun.

Egyptian records show coronation scenes, such as that of Seti I in 1290 BC, while the Judeo-Christian scriptures testify to particular rites associated with the conferring of kingship, the most detailed accounts of which are found in II Kings 11: 12 and II Chronicles 23: 11.

Issachar may be one of these, since in Egyptian accounts there is a tribe of sea peoples named Shekelesh ; Shekelesh is here believed to be composed from shekel-ish, meaning men of the shekel, a meaning synonymous with Issachar's man of hire.

The thirteenth and twelfth-century inscriptions and carvings at Karnak and Luxor are the only sources for " Sea Peoples ", a term invented by the Egyptians themselves and recorded in the boastful accounts of Egyptian military successes:

Many of the Egyptian campaign accounts between c. 1400 and 1300 BC reflect the general destabilization of the region of the Djahi.

There is no consensus about the outcome or what took place, with views ranging from an Egyptian victory, a draw, and an Egyptian defeat ( with the Egyptian accounts simply propaganda ), such as Iranian Egyptologist, Mehdi Yarahmadi.

Knowledge of the battle is derived entirely from the accounts of Hittite and Egyptian records, which disagree with each other ( each side claiming victory ).

Cleopatra's Needle as it stood at Alexandria Egypt in 1880The original idea to secure an Egyptian obelisk for New York City came out of the March 1877 New York City newspaper accounts of the transporting of the London obelisk.

He became close to Princess Nazli Fazl, and his contacts with the Egyptian upper class led to his marriage to the daughter of the Egyptian prime minister Mustafa Pasha Fahmi, whose friendship with Lord Cromer, then the effective British ruler of Egypt, accounts in part for the eventual acceptability of Zaghloul to the British occupation.

The 15th-century Egyptian historian Al-Maqrizi also wrote detailed accounts of Egyptian antiquities.

After four years, however, the Egyptian rebellion was defeated by the Achaemenid general Megabyzus, who captured the greater part of the Athenian forces.

Darius then began raising a huge new army with which he meant to completely subjugate Greece ; however, in 486 BC, his Egyptian subjects revolted, indefinitely postponing any Greek expedition.

In the meanwhile, Darius began raising a huge new army with which he meant to completely subjugate Greece ; however, in 486 BC, his Egyptian subjects revolted, indefinitely postponing any Greek expedition.

Contentious issues include Egypt's signing of the Camp David Accords with Israel in 1979, its support for Iraq in Iran's eight-year conflict, the Islamic Republic's hailing of Khalid Islambouli, the late President Anwar Sadat's assassin as a religious hero, seeing as there was both a street and mural named after him ( however, the honorer was changed to Muhammad al-Durrah, the 12-year-old Palestinian boy shot and killed during the outset of the Second Intifada ), and close Egyptian relations with the United States, and most of the Western European countries.

The victory was short-lived, however, as the crusaders were then defeated by the Egyptian army at Gaza in November of 1239.

In 1302 or 1303, however, the Templars lost the island to the Egyptian Mamluks in the Siege of Arwad.

Inscriptions written by the Philistines have not yet been found or conclusively identified ; however, their early history is known to scholars from inscriptions in other ancient documents, such as Ancient Egyptian texts.

" Egyptian strongholds in Canaan are also mentioned, including a temple dedicated to Amun, which some scholars place in Gaza ; however, the lack of detail indicating the precise location of these strongholds means that it is unknown what impact these had, if any, on Philistine settlement along the coast.

It was 20 years, however, before the decipherment of the Egyptian texts was announced by Jean-François Champollion in Paris in 1822 ; it took longer still before scholars were able to read other Ancient Egyptian inscriptions and literature confidently.

Around 590 BC, however, an Egyptian army sacked Napata, compelling the Kushite court to move to a more secure location further south at Meroe near the Sixth Cataract.

Egyptian Coptic, however, often still appeared in ecclesiastical and secular circles.

Its overall usefulness, however, has been limited by natural features, including a number of cataracts in the main Nile between Khartoum and the Egyptian border.

By that time, Arafat had graduated with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering and was called to duty to fight with Egyptian forces during the Suez Crisis ; however, he never actually fought on the battlefield.

The name Egyptian cotton is broadly associated with quality products, however only a small percentage of Egyptian cotton production is actually of superior quality.

The true Egyptian pronunciation remains uncertain, however, because hieroglyphs do not indicate vowels.

Little information on Egyptian rituals for Isis survives ; however, it is clear there were both priests and priestesses officiating at her cult throughout its history.

Middle Egyptian was spoken from about 2000 BC for a further 700 years when Late Egyptian made its appearance ; Middle Egyptian did, however, survive until the first few centuries AD as a written language, similar to the use of Latin during the Middle Ages and that of Classical Arabic today.

Darius therefore began raising a huge new army with which he meant to completely subjugate Greece ; however, in 486 BC, his Egyptian subjects revolted, indefinitely postponing any Greek expedition.

In the next reign, however, both father and son caused infinite trouble to loyal servants of Egypt like Rib-Addi, governor of Gubla ( Gebal ), not the least through transferring loyalty from the Egyptian crown to that of the expanding neighbouring Asia Minor based Hittite Empire under Suppiluliumas I.

The study of Egyptology, however, has in recent decades been taken up by Egyptian archæologists such as Zahi Hawass and the Supreme Council of Antiquities he leads.

In Egyptian art, Min was depicted as wearing a crown with feathers, and often holding his penis erect in his left hand and a flail ( referring to his authority, or rather that of the Pharaohs ) in his upward facing right hand.

The symbols of Min were the white bull, a barbed arrow, and a bed of lettuce, that the Egyptians believed to be an aphrodisiac, as Egyptian lettuce was tall, straight, and released a milk-like substance when rubbed, characteristics superficially similar to the penis.

The fish form may be considered as a phallic symbol as seen in the story of the Egyptian grain god Osiris, whose penis was eaten by ( conflated with ) fish in the Nile after he was attacked by the Typhonic beast Set.

The Egyptian hieroglyph for " penis " depicts either a circumcised or an erect organ.

Babi was also said to give the righteous dead continued virility, and to use his penis as the mast of a boat to convey them to the Egyptian paradise.