The next sentence is often translated " Crantor adds, that this is testified by the prophets of the Egyptians, who assert that these particulars are narrated by Plato are written on pillars which are still preserved.

In his dialogues ( e. g. Republic 399e, 592a ), Plato has Socrates utter, " by the dog " ( kai me ton kuna ), " by the dog of Egypt ", " by the dog, the god of the Egyptians " ( Gorgias, 482b ), for emphasis.

Numenius was a Neopythagorean, but his object was to trace the doctrines of Plato up to Pythagoras, and at the same time to show that they were not at variance with the dogmas and mysteries of the Brahmins, Jews, Magi and Egyptians.

Yet the debate did not end there ; Jan Assmann and James P. Allen have since asserted that the Egyptians did to some degree recognize a single divine force.

He was the introducer of the worship of Dionysus, according to Herodotus, who asserted that his powers as a seer were derived from the Egyptians and that he could understand the language of animals.

The first mention of aeronautics in history was in the writings of ancient Egyptians who described the flight of birds.

Herodotus described the Egyptians as " the healthiest of all men, next to the Libyans ", due to the dry climate and the notable public health system that they possessed.

Diodorus Siculus gives another version of the myth in which Osiris was described as an ancient king who taught the Egyptians the arts of civilization, including agriculture, then travelled the world with his sister Isis, the satyrs, and the nine muses, before finally returning to Egypt.

They lean on the ancient Greek traditions of Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus, who described an exaggerated negative character image of Khufu, ignoring the paradoxical ( because positive ) traditions the Egyptians themselves had always taught. Close-up of the dream stele

The text portrays Yahweh as telling Moses that he is sending him to the ( unspecified ) Pharaoh in order to bring the Israelites out of Egypt, an action that Yahweh is described as having decided upon as a result of noticing that the Israelites were being oppressed by the Egyptians.

A prolific writer, Ibn Yunus ' father has been described as " Egypt's most celebrated early historian and first known compiler of a biographical dictionary devoted exclusively to Egyptians ".

The Egyptians often described the sun's movement across the sky as the movement of a barque carrying Ra and his entourage of other gods, and the sun disk can either be equated with this solar barque or depicted containing the barque inside it.

They lean on the ancient Greek traditions of Herodot and Diodor, who described an exaggerated negative character image of Khufu, ignoring the paradoxical ( because positive ) traditions the Egyptians themselves always taught.

* Egyptians: An ancient and exotic people whose customs, as described by Herodotus, included the regular use of an emetic syrmaia.

" A few months later, after his capture, Kirkham was seen by the former Confederate General William Loring, who had taken service with the Egyptians, and described as " utterly used up by disease and dissipation ", wearing an ancient and much-patched British military uniform, and being very indignant that his nationality and British passport were being ignored.

It is rumoured to house the knowledge of the Egyptians by papyrus scrolls and history of the lost continent of Atlantis, much as the Great Library of Alexandria housed Grecian knowledge.

The area the first unit begins in is based on the specific civilization represented ( e. g. on the island of Crete for the Cretans or in Africa for the Egyptians ).

** the island of Kastellorizo ( like Rhodes a part of the Aegean Dodecanese island group ) was taken by the Knights of St. John Hospitaller of Jerusalem in 1309 ; the Egyptians occupied it from 1440 until 1450 ; then the Kingdom of Naples ruled ; Venetian rule began in 1635 ( as Castellorosso ); all these states, excluding the Egyptians, were Catholic ; Ottoman rule was established in 1686, although Greeks controlled the island during the Greek War of Independence from 1821-1833.

Known to the Ancient Egyptians as Abu or Yebu, the island of Elephantine stood at the border between Egypt and Nubia.

With the support of the Egyptians, he forced her to flee the island in 1463, and he was later crowned king.

In 1421 Egypt was attacked by the Kingdom of Cyprus, and although the Egyptians were unable to capture the island they forced the Cypriotes to acknowledge the suzerainty of the Egyptian sultan Barsbay.

According to Herodotus, Anysis created the island from the marsh " by heaping up ashes and earth: for whenever any of the Egyptians visited him bringing food, according as it had been appointed to them severally to do without the knowledge of the Ethiopian, he bade them bring also some ashes for their gift.

Following his solo acoustic album I Often Dream Of Trains in 1984, he formed a new band, The Egyptians, comprising former members of The Soft Boys ( Andy Metcalfe and Morris Windsor, supplemented at first by early keyboardist Roger Jackson ), resulting in their 1985 debut Fegmania !, which featured typically surrealist Hitchcock songs such as " My Wife and My Dead Wife " and " The Man with the Lightbulb Head ".

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.

Under Greco-Roman rule, Egypt hosted several Greek settlements, mostly concentrated in Alexandria, but also in a few other cities, where Greek settlers lived alongside some seven to ten million native Egyptians.

The burial habits of Ptolemaic Egyptians mostly followed ancient traditions.

These letters, consisting of cuneiform tablets mostly written in Akkadian – the regional language of diplomacy for this period – were first discovered in around 1887 by local Egyptians who secretly dug most of them from the ruined city ( they were originally stored in an ancient building archaeologists have since called the Bureau of Correspondence of Pharaoh ) and then sold them on the antiquities market.

They are of Arab origin, but now of mixed blood mostly with upper Egyptians and nubians.

The Egyptians were mostly used to slowly defeating a much weaker enemy, town by town, until beaten into submission.

The Egyptians supplied the Greeks with mostly grain but also linen and papyrus while the Greeks bartered mostly silver but also timber, olive oil and wine.

When Ibrahim Pasha invaded the Peloponnese in 1825 ( with an army consisted mostly by Egyptians ), Papaflessas was still Minister of Internal Affairs.

Egyptians mostly live in Kosovo and speak Albanian.

From time to time the Persian armies, which invaded the Roman territories so often at this period would bring back a multitude of captives, Byzantines, Egyptians, Euphratesians or Edessans, mostly Jacobites.

Native Egyptians continued having a role in Egypt, yet a small one in the Ptolemaic government mostly in lower posts and outnumbered the foreigners.

The first bomb blast, at 01: 15 local time ( 22: 15 UTC ), happened at the Old Market bazaar in downtown Sharm el-Sheikh, killing 17 people, mostly Egyptians.

In spite of these efforts, many Armenian Egyptians of the youngest generation ( and who are mostly the result of marriages between the Armenian community and other Egyptians-whether Christians or Muslims ) do not speak the Armenian language, or go to Armenian schools and are not in touch with their heritage or community.

The cedar oil of the ancients, in particular the Sumerians and Egyptians, was derived from the Cedar of Lebanon, a true cedar native to the northern and western mountains of the middle east.

The Egyptians were tricked into marching into a narrow and steep valley and were wiped out by Ethiopian gunners surrounding the valley from the surrounding mountains.

Djibouti was home to an old civilization, together with northern Somalia, Eritrea, and the Red Sea coast of Sudan, was known to the Ancient Egyptians as Punt ( or " Ta Netjeru ," meaning god's land ), whose first mention dates to the 25th century BC

Together with northern Somalia, Djibouti, and the Red Sea coast of Sudan, Eritrea is considered the most likely location of the land known to the ancient Egyptians as Punt ( or " Ta Netjeru ," meaning god's land ), whose first mention dates to the 25th century BC.

The Egyptians invade northern Syria, but Antiochus defeats and repels his opponent's army.

For the Egyptians it marked the northern extremity of Amurru, east of Phoenicia.

The northern region of Gujarat, mainly Khambhat, was even more important: the Gujarat Sultanate was an essential intermediary in east – west trade, between the Red Sea, Egypt and Malacca: Gujarati were important middlemen bringing spices from the Moluccas as well as silk from China, and then selling them to the Egyptians and Arabs.

They were defeated and the Egyptians retreated into northern Syria.

The Medjay ( also Medjai, Mazoi, Madjai, Mejay, Egyptian mDA. y )– from mDA, represents the name Ancient Egyptians gave to a region in northern Sudan – where an ancient people of Nubia inhabited.

The Egyptians then marched into northern Ethiopia from their coastal possessions around the port of Massawa.

All of the gold deposits in Egypt and northern Sudan were found and exploited by Egyptians, but new gold discoveries have been found in Sudan, Eritrea, and Saudi Arabia.