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unusual facts about Ancient Egyptian



Castlevania: Harmony of Despair

Chapter 7, entitled Beauty, Desire, Situation Dire, features an Ancient Egyptian pyramid theme with Astarte as the end-level boss and was released early October 2010.

Fire in the Abyss

Just when hope seems to have run dry Gilbert discovers that he and the other DTIs have developed a telepathic ring, coordinated by the Ancient Egyptian priestess Tari, a follower of the cult of Isis.

Nemi ships

Caligula particularly favoured the Egyptian Isis cult which he had established in Rome and also supported that of Diana Nemorensis whom, in the Roman tradition of syncretism, he likely viewed as an aspect of Isis.

The Blinding of Truth by Falsehood

The Tale of Truth and Falsehood or the The Blinding of Truth by Falsehood is a story of the New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period in ancient Egyptian history.

The Magic of Reality

These myths are chosen from all across the world including Babylonian, Judeo-Christian, Aztec, Maori, Ancient Egyptian, Australian Aboriginal, Nordic, Hellenic, Chinese, Japanese, and other traditions.


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1970 in Norway

17 May – Thor Heyerdahl and his crew sets sail from Morocco towards Latin America aboard Ra II, a papyrus boat modeled after ancient Egyptian sailing vessels, in an attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean and prove his theory that the ancient Egyptians sailed to America in ancient times.

Aguz

Qasr el-'Aguz is the modern name of the ancient Egyptian site, not far from Thebes, of a temple of the Pharaonic god Thoth

Ahhotep

Ahhotep II, believed to have been the wife of ancient Egyptian pharaoh Kamose who reigned 1526–1506 BC

Ahhotep I, Ancient Egyptian queen who lived during the 17th dynasty

Akoris

Akoris, Egypt, an ancient Egyptian site 40km north of Hermopolis Magna

Ancient Egyptian cattle

Ancient Egyptian cattle came to be considered so important that many Egyptian gods were considered to have the form of cattle, notable deities being Hathor, Ptah (as the Apis Bull), Menthu (as the Bukha bull), and Atum-Ra (as the Mnevis Bull).

Apophis

Apep, an Ancient Egyptian mythological demon, in Greek known as Apophis

Arthur Worthington

He refounded a new Temple of Truth, attracted new followers, and even found an "Isis" to compliment his newfound identity as a reincarnation of Osiris, an ancient Egyptian deity.

Bayoumi Andil

The grammatical, morphological and phonological differences between the spoken Egyptian language and the Arabic language is sufficiently disparate to categorize them into two distinct groups, and the similarities between the first and its Egyptian ancestors, both Coptic and ancient Egyptian, are strong enough to consider the modern Masri Egyptian language an evolution of Ancient Egyptian.

Collect Pond

The design, by John Haviland, was based on an engraving of an ancient Egyptian mausoleum.

Continuity thesis

He sees specific influences in Alhazen's physical optical theory, Chinese mechanical technologies leading to the perception of the world as a machine, the Hindu-Arabic numeral system, which carried implicitly a new mode of mathematical atomic thinking, and the heliocentrism rooted in in ancient Egyptian religious ideas associated with Hermeticism.

Cosmoline

Notable Egyptologist Dr. Zahi Hawass recently disclosed that ancient Egyptian mummification practices from the third to fifth dynasties utilized a chemical compound molecularly similar to cosmoline.

Creator deity

Initiated by Pharaoh Akhenaten and Queen Nefertiti around 1330 BCE, during New Kingdom period in ancient Egyptian history.

Croydon facelift

The Croydon Guardian newspaper jokingly suggested that the style may have originated with the ancient Egyptian Queen Nefertiti.

Deshret

Deshret, from ancient Egyptian, was the formal name for the Red Crown of Lower Egypt and for the desert Red Land on either side of Kemet, the fertile Nile river basin.

Konstantin Kakanias

1984, Kakanias moved to Luxor, Egypt to study Ancient Egyptian art and remained there for a year.

Live insect jewelry

Ancient Egyptian soldiers commonly wore scarab beetles into battle as the beetles were considered to have supernatural powers of protection against enemies.

Miriam Lichtheim

In 1973 she published the first volume of the Ancient Egyptian Literature (abbr. AEL), annotated translations of Old and Middle Kingdom texts.

Month of Hathor

The name of the month comes from Hathor, the Ancient Egyptian Goddess of Beauty and Love.

Mosque of Amir al-Maridani

The eight columns that support the dome, however, are all of equal size, have ancient Egyptian capitals, and were likely brought from Upper Egypt.

Myth of redemptive violence

The Tale of Two Brothers is an ancient Egyptian story from around the 13th century BCE.The narrative is preserved on the Papyrus D’Orbiney.

Nabarun Bhattacharya

Anubis, the ancient Egyptian deity guarding the gate between life and death, also comes to facilitate in a mass, almost biblical exodus of the dogs from the city of sin, that is, Kolkata, which is about to experience a massive earthquake as a part of the cosmic punishment.

National Heritage Memorial Fund

The Amarna Princess, an ancient Egyptian statuette, later proved to be a forgery by Shaun Greenhalgh

Psalm 51

Parallels between the Ancient Egyptian ritual text Opening of the mouth ceremony and Psalm 51 are pointed out in "Psalm 51 and the 'Opening of the Mouth' Ceremony," by Benjamin Urrutia, Scripta Hierosolymitana: Publications of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, volume 28, pages 222-223 (1982).

Red Panda Adventures

The Sphinx: Mike Murtoch, a master safe-cracker turned teleporting cat burglar with the supernatural aid of an ancient Egyptian amulet and a pair of mystic sapphires.

Robert Bauval

In particular, the aspects of the OCT which claim there is a link between the Ancient Egyptian structures at Giza and the constellations as they looked some 12,500 years ago are yet to find support from many within the field.

Saccara

Saqqara (also spelled "Saccara"), an ancient Egyptian necropolis

Scarab Bluff

Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1993 in keeping with other names in the vicinity after the sacred scarab beetle of the Egyptians in association with other nearby landforms named after Ancient Egyptian based themes.

Second Dynasty of Egypt

Save for the time of its last ruler Khasekhemwy, it marks one of the most obscure periods in ancient Egyptian history.

The Art Fund

In 2006 it was caught out when it was discovered that the Amarna Princess, purportedly an ancient Egyptian sculpture, was actually a forgery by Shaun Greenhalgh.

Tony Harris

Anthony Charles Harris (1790–1869), collector of ancient Egyptian papyri

Xenoglossy

However, in the June 1937 issue of the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Battiscombe Gunn claimed that Hulme had manipulated the transcriptions to fit his own expectations of what he imagined ancient Egyptian to sound like.