More than a thousand years of Egyptian history became lost in translation. Egypt made way not only for a new language but also for new politics and religion. The sacred temples inscribed with hieroglyphics no longer had any meaning for the Egyptians or their new rulers, and they were stripped...
Although the battle is frequently given as c. 466 BCE, it is also dated to 469 BCE or 468 BCE. Scholars are divided on when exactly it happened because the history of this entire period, known as the Pentecontaetia (“period of the fifty years”) is poorly attested in the primary sour...
whose tomb unveiled fantastic riches* Rameses the Great, the last majestic king of ancient Egypt* Ptahhotep, the great thinker and statesman for King Izezireveals how Egyptian society was constructed, its religions, burial rituals, architecture, and the history and practices of archaeology that have...
agony. The mind recalls its past as it processes its present. But what the consciousness witnesses is beyond comprehension. It exists outside the realm of belief, on the outer reaches of the horizon of reality. Vessels burst, each from the strain of pure terror. Soft brain tissue shrivels a...
Mesopotamia has suffered throughout all of its history from invasions by other cultures who longed to steal the riches of their land. So many struggles and invasions interrupted this ancient civilization’s development, giving way to other peoples who also settled in these territories such as the ...
alongside other elements such as cadmium, cobalt and, of course, hydrocarbons. These riches, which are yet to be explored or seriously exploited by any countries, could become a flashpoint for rival powers in the region, especially given the relative poverty of the states around the Horn of ...
Gold swiftly came to be a symbol, and unit, of wealth, and it has maintained this allure through time and around the globe. Several millennia after the Egyptian pharaohs and their tombs of gold, the Aztec Empire's gold riches were plundered by the Conquistadors who sought the valuable metal...
In a book about irrational numbers, the mathematician Julian Havil refers to "the staged destruction of the academic riches of Alexandria:" ...the Romans (seemingly in 48 B.C.E.) razed the great Library of Alexandria with its estimated 500,000 manuscripts, the Christians (in 392 C.E.) ...
“God wanted his people throughout the world to know the glorious riches of this mystery—which is Christ living in you, giving you the hope of glory”(Colossians 1:27 God’s Word Translation©). Yesterday our nephew-in-law died into the arms of Jesus after more than a year of strenu...
whom even Cicero admired ; Celsus the physician Not a few are steeped in the romantic history of was an encyclopredic scholar after the taste and their science, know what is to be known of ancient fashion of his age. When the humanistic tradition Greek and Egyptian chemistry, search out ...