3The first zoo we know of was in Egypt around 1500 BC.It was Queen Hatshepsut's zoo.She(1)___wild animals as gifts from the countries that her army had conquered (征服). Before modern zoos,there were small collections of animals called menageries.In most menageries,animals were kept in...
Evidence indicates human habitation in the southwestern corner of Egypt, near the Sudan border, before 8000 BC.Climate changes and/or overgrazing around 8000 BC began to desiccate the pastoral lands of Egypt, eventually forming the Sahara (c. 2500 BC), and early tribes naturally migrated to the...
It was founded in Alexandria around 300 BC, by Ptolemy I Soter, who ruled Egypt after the death ofAlexander the Great. Its aim was to establish a center of learning and gather all known information about the outside world in one place. It contained more than a million papyrus scrolls on ...
Egypt, on Nov. 4, 2024. The 12th session of the World Urban Forum (WUF12) kicked off on Monday in New Cairo, Egypt, marking the forum's first return to Africa in more than two decades. (Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa)
Professor of Egyptology and Archaeology Laurel Bestock answers your questions about ancient Egypt from Twitter. What did ancient Egyptians sound like? Why is King Tut so enduringly popular? What ancient Egyptian medicine and tools do we still use in mode
摘要: The article reviews the book "Money in Ptolemaic Egypt: From the Macedonian Conquest to the End of the Third Century BC," by Sitta Von Reden.关键词: Argonne National Laboratory Intense Pulsed Neutron Source materials science neutron scattering relationality ecosystem metaphor US national ...
Quotas are one vehicle of increasing women's political representation that became popular after the Beijing Platform for Acton was announced in 1995. This research examines why certain actors in Egypt called for the use of a quota for women at the national level in Egypt. I consider this ...
Whereas the geologically higher land upriver to the south, where the river valley is narrow and the fertile land on either side may only be a couple of miles in width, was known as Upper Egypt. The two kingdoms were unified by Narmer in c. 3100 BC, and a series of dynasties ruled Egy...
the same individual whose ceremonial slate palette was found by James E. Quibell in Upper Egypt. The inscription was found on a large circular platform, possibly the foundations of a storage silo on the Halif Terrace. Dated to ca. 3000 BC, mineralogical studies of the shard conclude that it...
The article examines the role that poetry, music, and group chants played in mobilizing the people of Egypt in their fight for political revolution in early 2011. It discusses how protestors used poems such as "Sura" by Salah Jahin to rally in Tahirir Square, describes how the chant "Masr...