The Egyptians gave the giraffe its own hieroglyph, named ' sr ' in Old Egyptian and ' mmy ' in later periods.

It is known that Semitic people working in Egypt c. 2000 BC borrowed a hieroglyph for " water " that was first used for an alveolar nasal (), because of the Egyptian word for water, n-t.

This Semitic letter in its original form seems to have been inspired by a similar Egyptian hieroglyph for " eye ".

Egyptian hieroglyph s, as this example from a sarcophagus from Thebes, Egypt | Thebes of about 530 BC, represent both ideogram s and phonograms.

* Spine with marrow ( hieroglyph ), an Egyptian language biliteral sign

* Mast ( hieroglyph ), an Egyptian language triliteral

In the Rosetta Stone, the cartouche hieroglyph is used for the word " name ", Egyptian rn.

V11, ( the cartouche hieroglyph is V10 ), is used in the Egyptian language for words meaning: " to cut, to divide, to separate ".

Egyptian statues represent the child Horus, pictured as a naked boy with his finger on his mouth, a realization of the hieroglyph for " child " that is unrelated to the Greco-Roman and modern gesture for " silence ".

Neith's symbol and part of her hieroglyph also bore a resemblance to a loom, and so later in the history of Egyptian myths, she also became goddess of weaving, and gained this version of her name, Neith, which means weaver.

Egyptian hieroglyphs typical of the Graeco-Roman period, sculpted in Relief. Glyphs: Owl ( hieroglyph ) | owl, Viper ( hieroglyph ) | viper, 3-strokes ( plural ), Bread bun ( hieroglyph ) | ' bread bun ', Folded cloth ( s hieroglyph ) | cloth

A hieroglyph ( Greek for " sacred carving ") is a character of the ancient Egyptian writing system.

In Neoplatonism, especially of the Renaissance, a hieroglyph was an artistic representation of an esoteric idea, which actual Egyptian hieroglyphs seemed to the Neoplatonists to be.

The vulture hieroglyph < hiero > A </ hiero > was the Egyptian sign used for the sound ( 3 ) including words such as mother, prosperous, grandmother, and ruler.

* Sekem is an Anthroposophical and Islamic foundation and farming village centered on principles for Biodynamic agriculture in Egypt ; this name refers to Shechem, and to the Ancient Egyptian hieroglyph pronounced ' Sekem ' meaning ' vitality ' or ' life '.

* Sail ( hieroglyph ), an Egyptian language determinative

To write the unit fractions used in their Egyptian fraction notation, in hieroglyph script, the Egyptians placed the hieroglyph

* Foot ( hieroglyph ), an ancient Egyptian symbol

In particular, Gardiner's Egyptian hieroglyph G29, believed to depict an E. senegalensis, is sometimes labeled " Jabiru " in hieroglyph lists.

The formality of their stance seems to be related with the Egyptian precedent, but it was accepted for a good reason.

Examples among the Egyptian monks of this submission to the commands of the superiors, exalted into a virtue by those who regarded the entire crushing of the individual will as a goal, are detailed by Cassian and others, e. g. a monk watering a dry stick, day after day, for months, or endeavoring to remove a huge rock immensely exceeding his powers.

On March 30, 2010, a spokesman for the Egyptian Culture Ministry claimed it had unearthed a large red granite door in Luxor with inscriptions by User, a powerful adviser to the 18th dynasty Queen Hatshepsut who ruled between 1479 BC and 1458 BC, the longest of any woman.

* Asa, alternate term for naboot ; a staff used in Egyptian stick fencing

Anthony the Great, who had retired to the Egyptian Thebaid during the persecution of Maximian, AD 312, was the most celebrated among them for his austerities, his sanctity, and his power as an exorcist.

According to Herodotus, Amasis, was asked by Cambyses II or Cyrus the Great for an Egyptian ophthalmologist on good terms.

Although the legislation was not retrospective, five years later the Athenians removed 5000 from the citizen registers when a free gift of grain arrived for all citizens from an Egyptian king.

* Monuments and records of other contemporary civilizations ; for example, representations of alien peoples in Egyptian frescoes ; imitation of Aegean fabrics and style in non-Aegean lands ; allusions to Mediterranean peoples in Egyptian, Semitic or Babylonian records.

Although it was recognized that certain tributaries, represented for example, in the XVIIIth Dynasty tomb of Rekhmara at Egyptian Thebes as bearing vases of peculiar forms, were of some Mediterranean race, neither their precise habitat nor the degree of their civilization could be determined while so few actual prehistoric remains were known in the Mediterranean lands.

Anubis ( or ; ) is the Greek name for a jackal-headed god associated with mummification and the afterlife in ancient Egyptian religion.

The hieroglyphic system for Egyptian numerals, like the later Roman numerals, descended from tally marks used for counting.

While still a deacon under Alexander's care, he seems to have been brought for a while into close relations with some of the solitaries of the Egyptian desert, and in particular with the Anthony the Great, whose life he is said to have written.

Third exile: under Emperor Constantius, for 6 years Feb 356 – 21 Feb 362 ; in the Egyptian desert.

Both are probably derived from the Latin barica, from Greek baris " Egyptian boat ", from Coptic bari " small boat ", hieroglyphic Egyptian < small >< hiero > D58-G29-M17-M17-D21-P1 </ hiero ></ small > and similar ba-y-r for " basket-shaped boat ".

During this period, the town suffered an earthquake as well as the destruction of the Muslim quarter in 1834 by Egyptian troops, apparently as a reprisal for the murder of a favored loyalist of Ibrahim Pasha.

In the early 19th century the foundations for the extensive collection of sculpture began to be laid and Greek, Roman and Egyptian artefacts dominated the antiquities displays.

Work was also progressing on the northern half of the West Wing ( The Egyptian Sculpture Gallery ) 1826 – 1831, with Montagu House demolished in 1842 to make room for the final part of the West Wing, completed in 1846, and the South Wing with its great colonnade, initiated in 1843 and completed in 1847, when the Front Hall and Great Staircase were opened to the public.

The seven permanent Egyptian galleries at the British Museum, which include its largest exhibition space ( Room 4, for monumental sculpture ), can display only 4 % of its Egyptian holdings.

Darius then died whilst preparing to march on Egypt, and the throne of Persia passed to his son Xerxes I. Xerxes crushed the Egyptian revolt, and very quickly restarted the preparations for the invasion of Greece.

The alliance commonly known as the Second Triumvirate, renewed for a five-year term in 38 BC, broke down when Octavian came to perceive Caesarion, the son of Julius Caesar and the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra VII, as a major threat to his power.

Egyptians today often refer to Cairo as Maṣr (), the Arabic pronunciation of the name for Egypt itself, emphasizing the city's continued role in Egyptian influence.

Origen held that Moses, the traditional author of the book of Genesis, had been brought up in Egypt and would therefore have used the larger Egyptian cubit.

Egyptian cubit rule of 0. 52m

According to the Ancient Egyptian units of measurement, the Egyptian Royal cubit was subdivided into 7 palms of 4 fingers / digits each ; surviving cubit rods are between 52. 3 and 52. 9 cm ( 20. 6 to 20. 8 inches ) in length.

On surviving Ancient Egyptian cubit-rods, the royal cubit is divided into seven palms of four digits or fingers each.

The royal cubit measured approximately 525 mm, so the length of the ancient Egyptian hand was about 94 mm.

Detail of the Ancient Egyptian cubit rod in the Museo Egizio of Turin, showing digit, palm, hand and fist lengths

On surviving Ancient Egyptian cubit-rods, the royal cubit is divided into seven palms of four digits or fingers each.

The royal cubit measured approximately 525 mm, so the length of the ancient Egyptian digit was about 19 mm.

On surviving Ancient Egyptian cubit-rods, the royal cubit is divided into seven palms of four digits each.

The royal cubit measured approximately 525 mm, so the length of the ancient Egyptian palm was about 75 mm.

Fasold and the team measured the length of the formation, close to the 300 cubits ( 157 m, 515 ft ) of the Noah's Ark in the Bible if the Ancient Egyptian cubit of 20. 6 inches ( 0. 52 m ) is used.

The Egyptian cubit, the Indus Valley units of length referred to above and the Mesopotamian cubit were used in the 3rd millennium BC and are the earliest known units used by ancient peoples to measure length.