Who created Egyptology? Who was the Gregorian calendar named after? Who invented leap year? Who started the Egyptian Revolution of 2011? Who invented the alarm clock in ancient Greece? Who built the Egyptian pyramids? Who used hieroglyphs first: Lower or Upper Egypt?
Who invented the Ancient Egyptian calendar? Who created Egyptology? Who built Shahjahan's tomb? Who designed the funerary complex and Step Pyramid of Djoser? Who built Abu Simbel? Who used hieroglyphs first: Lower or Upper Egypt? Who started the New Kingdom of Egypt?
It may have been an invention of the Chaldeans of ancient Babylonia; specimens from Egypt date from the 14th century bc. The Romans invented a clepsydra consisting
An ancient Colombian creation legend tells of two immortal beings. A man names Tena and woman named Fura were created by god in order to populate the earth. The couple had only one rule, that they must remain faithful to one another and they would be rewarded with eternal youth. Fura did...
There's also the matter of which ancient words referred to what we think of as kings. In the area around Egypt, for example, the word "pharaoh" didn't come into use until perhaps 1570 B.C.E. The Sumerian King List Some historians say that Egypt may lay claim to the world's ...
He spent most of his ruling years on an unprecedented military campaign through Asia and northeast Africa, and he had created one of the largest empires of the ancient world by the age of thirty, stretching from Greece to northwestern India. He was undefeated in battle and is widely ...
When were tiles created? Tiles are the simplest form of ceramic art. The earliest known examples are Egyptian andfrom 4,000 BC. Through history, tiles were made by Assyrians, Babylonians and the Islamic Empire. Early tiles can be seen in Tunisia (c. ...
In ancient Egypt is was said; “The body is the house of God,” and one of the many proverbs is “Man, know thyself … and thou shalt know the gods,” and what Manly P. Hall called Aquarius the Man, or the human head represented by the Egyptian Sphinx. When we KNOW THYSELF, we...
surprising, since the position of the Moon has a major influence on seasonal changes. What may be surprising, though, is that some ancient peoples worshipped a moon god rather than the widely-known goddesses. In theBronze Age, the East, from Anatolia to Sumer and Egypt, had (male) moon ...
Da Vinci created two designs of diving gears. The diver was able to breath through a hose connected to a bell, and through two canes attached to a mask. His designs also included a bottle which would allow divers to urinate without having to go above water, and an inflatable balloon, ...