Ancient Egypt was a nation located east of North Africa along the coastline of the Nile River. It was composed of two kingdoms; Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt. The nations were headed by their pharaohs whose regencies depended on the godly rights of the kings. The concept of “afterlife” and...
The capital that he founded and named after himself, Alexandria, became a center for learning and culture that contributed to preservation of ancient knowledge and the spread of Hellenism. The Ptolemaic Dynasty, established by one of his generals after Alexander’s death, would rule Egypt for ...
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Along with King Tut, perhaps no figure is more famously associated with ancient Egypt than Cleopatra VII. But while she was born in Alexandria, Cleopatra was actually part of a long line of Greek Macedonians originally descended from Ptolemy I, one of Alexander the Great’s most trusted lieuten...
Ismail al-Jazari’s musical robots. / Courtesy Freer Gallery of Art,Wikimedia Commons When the Greeks controlled Egypt, a succession of engineers who could construct automata established themselves in Alexandria. Starting with the polymath Ctesibius (285-222 BC), Alexandrian engineers left behind te...
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Bibi Saint-Pol / Wikimedia Commons The second period in Roman history is the period of the Roman Republic. The word Republic refers to both the time period and the political system [Roman Republics, by Harriet I. Flower (2009)]. Its dates vary with the scholar, but are typically the fou...
It was the worst terrorist operation in the history of Egypt and Russia. 这是埃及和俄罗斯历史上最严重的恐怖主义行为。 ProjectSyndicate 8th century BCE – 5th century CE) can be divided roughly into the history of Egypt in the east, the history of Ancient Libya in the middle and the ...
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“You don’t find things like that in Victoria,” Herbst told the Times Colonist. “The fact that it was found in a layer of mud on the foreshore, to me, I recognized that that was probably an ancient aboriginal village down there. … I knew it was possibly significant.” ...