The history of the alphabet started in ancient Egypt.

The Great Sphinx and the pyramids of Giza are among the most recognizable symbols of the civilization of ancient Egypt.

Map of ancient Egypt, showing major cities and sites of the Dynastic period ( c. 3150 BC to 30 BC )

Ancient Egypt was an ancient civilization of Northeastern Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern country of Egypt.

His verses have not come down to us through a manuscript tradition-generations of scribes copying an author's collected works, such as delivered intact into the modern age four entire books of Pindar's odes-but haphazardly, in quotes from ancient scholars and commentators whose own works have chanced to survive, and in the tattered remnants of papyri uncovered from an ancient rubbish pile at Oxyrhynchus and other locations in Egypt: sources that modern scholars have studied and correlated exhaustively, adding little by little to the world's store of poetic fragments.

Ancient art was largely, but not entirely, based on the nine great ancient civilizations: Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, Greece, China, Rome, India, the Celtic peoples, and Maya.

Its value is the insight it provides to the ancient culture of Egypt.

In Critias, Plato claims that his accounts of ancient Athens and Atlantis stem from a visit to Egypt by the legendary Athenian lawgiver Solon in the 6th century BC.

In Egypt, Solon met a priest of Sais, who translated the history of ancient Athens and Atlantis, recorded on papyri in Egyptian hieroglyphs, into Greek.

Ancient Nubia shared many aspects of its mythology with ancient Egypt and there is debate about the original source of some religious concepts that the two cultures share and, whether the assimilation was from Nubia to Egypt, the reverse, or through continuing exchanges.

At one time the Kush of Nubia ruled ancient Egypt.

* Ay ( reigned c. 1323 – 1319 or 1327 – 1323 BCE ), a pharaoh of ancient Egypt

The jackal was strongly associated with cemeteries in ancient Egypt, since it was a scavenger which threatened to uncover human bodies and eat their flesh.

" Mount " Megiddo is a Tell on which ancient forts were built to guard the main highway, the Via Maris, which connected Ancient Egypt with Mesopotamia.

* Mehen, another ancient board game from Predynastic Egypt

Similar technology may have been used in ancient Ireland ( the Liath Meisicith ) and quite possibly ancient Egypt.

Boats were used between 4000 BCE and 3000 BCE in Sumer, ancient Egypt and in the Indian Ocean.

Brewing has taken place since around the 6th millennium BC, and archaeological evidence suggests that this technique was used in ancient Egypt.

They were deposited with the dead in ancient Egypt.

In ancient Egypt, the bee was seen to symbolize the lands of Lower Egypt, with the Pharaoh being referred to as " He of Sedge and Bee " ( the sedge representing Upper Egypt ).

Unlike the ancient Minoan civilization, the Mycenaean Greeks emphasized the need for fortifications alongside natural defenses of mountainous terrain, such as the massive Cyclopean walls built at Mycenae during the last half of the 2nd millennium BC.

* Something from or belonging to the ancient town of Mycenae in Peloponnese in Greece

In ancient Greece, large stone walls had been built in Mycenaean Greece, such as the ancient site of Mycenae ( famous for the huge stone blocks of its ' cyclopean ' walls ).

In ancient Greece, large stone walls had been built in Mycenaean Greece, such as the ancient site of Mycenae ( famous for the huge stone blocks of its ' cyclopean ' walls ).

Traces of them remain at Mycenae in Greece, and some ancient Greek vases suggest the existence of battlements.

The area is also surrounded by history ranging from the small ruined castle above the harbour in Astros to the huge and truly magnificent Palamidi citadel that sits above Navplio ( Naphlion ), the ancient sites of Mycenae and Tiryns.

The latter was the German member of a Japanese archeological team, which discovered ruins of a lost pre-Grecian civilization on an island named Bardos ( or Birdos, although some inconsistent translations have identified the island as being the actual Greek island of Rhodes ); the civilization was loosely based on the ancient Mycenae, and was called the Mycéne Empire in the series.

It is located 1 km west of the ancient site of Mycenae and 2 km east of the highway linking Argos and Corinth.

In 1876 the archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann discovered in Mycenae six graves, which he was confident belonged to kings and ancient Greek heroes — Agamemnon, Cassandra, Evrimdon and their associates.

Presumably the hamlet was named after the ancient Greek city of Mycenae.

* the modern Greek name for ancient Mycenae

* Mykines, Greece, a village in Argolis, Greece near ancient Mycenae

In this part of the book, Gould Davis focused on the role of women in the ancient civilizations of Crete and Mycenae.

For purposes of international communication and trade, the official names of the chemical elements both ancient and more recently recognized are decided by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry ( IUPAC ), which has decided on a sort of international English language, drawing on traditional English names even when an element's chemical symbol is based on a Latin or other traditional word, for example adopting " gold " rather than " aurum " as the name for the 79th element ( Au ).

In ancient Egypt, daggers were usually made of copper or bronze, while royalty had gold weapons.

On gold coins struck in his royal workshop, Theodebert is shown in the pearl-studded regalia of the Byzantine emperor ; Childebert I is shown in profile in the ancient style, wearing a toga and a diadem.

The menorah ( ) is described in the Bible as the seven-branched ancient lampstand made of gold and used in the portable sanctuary set up by Moses in the wilderness and later in the Temple in Jerusalem.

The flag of New Mexico is represented by the red and gold colors, which represent Spain, as well as the Zia symbol, an ancient symbol for the sun of that Pueblo-related tribe.

Sumatra was known in ancient times by the Sanskrit names of Swarnadwīpa (" Island of Gold ") and Swarnabhūmi (" Land of Gold "), because of the gold deposits of the island's highland.

Euro gold and silver commemorative coins ( Greece )# 2004 coinage | Greek commemorative coin featuring modern and ancient weightlifting ( latter picture taken from Grecian vase ).

An ancient Hindu text may have earlier referred to mainland Southeast Asia as Suvarnabhumi which means land of gold and insular Southeast Asia as Suvarnadvipa which means island or peninsular of gold.

He wore the regalia traditionally associated both with the ancient Roman monarchy and with the statue of Jupiter Capitolinus: the purple and gold " toga picta ", laurel crown, red boots and ( again, possibly ) the reddened face of Rome's supreme deity.

The ancient Greeks called it ' gold ' or ' white gold ', as opposed to ' refined gold '.

The gold content of naturally occurring electrum in modern Western Anatolia ranges from 70 % to 90 %, in contrast to the 45 – 55 % of electrum used in ancient Lydian coinage of the same geographical area.

Analysis of the electrum composition in ancient Greek coinage dating from about 600 BC shows that the gold composition was about 55. 5 % in the coinage issued by Phocaea.

Electrum was often referred to as white gold in ancient times but could be more accurately described as " pale gold ".

The discrepancy between gold content of electrum from modern Western Anatolia ( 70 – 90 %) and ancient Lydian coinage ( 45 – 55 %) suggests that the Lydians had already solved the refining technology for silver and were adding refined silver to the local native electrum some decades before introducing the pure silver coins cited below.

Some of the archaeological discoveries are: Stone axes of the Neolithic and Chalcolithic period, potteries and objects of the ancient cities of Curium and Amathus, as well as Roman terracottas, gold jewellery, coins, sculptures, columns, vases, earrings, rings, necklaces, marble statues etc.

Vasco da Gama's companion Tomé Lopes reasoned that Ophir would have been the ancient name for Great Zimbabwe in Zimbabwe, the main center of sub-African trade in gold in the Renaissance period — though the ruins at Great Zimbabwe are now dated to the medieval era, long after Solomon is said to have lived.

The sculpture was wreathed with shoots of olive worked in gold and seated on a magnificent throne of cedarwood, inlaid with ivory, gold, ebony, and precious stones-a most extravagant image of ancient furniture.

" Las Médulas " ancient Roman gold mines.

There are conflicting legends that this ancient Crown of England still exists ; that it was secreted by some Royalist and its hiding place was never revealed, although official sources state that the gold from this crown was recovered and used to make the present St Edward's Crown.