Questions tagged [egypt]
The questions concerning modern-day Egypt and its history from 7th century AD to present. For questions about ancient Egypt, use the [ancient-egypt] tag instead.
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Where can I find a reliable method of translating English to Ancient Egyptian? [closed]
Having no prior knowledge of the language I am working on a project that requires me to name things using languages similar to ancient Egyptian. So far I have been using this website:
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Why didn't the ancient Egyptians conquer an empire? [closed]
If we look for example to Romans and Greeks we will find that they had great empires, they invaded a lot of countries and established civilizations outside their countries.
Why didn't ancient ...
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Alignment of South American and Egyptian Pyramids [closed]
I don't remember when and where I hear, but I remember something like this: several pyramids in Egypt are aligned with pyramids in South America .
That is, in South America are several (if correctly ...
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What would've been the outcome of the Yom Kippur War had the UN not intervened? [closed]
As a kid growing up in Egypt, we obviously had things in our official history textbooks that said that we "totally won that war", and I'm very sure that it's the exact opposite in Israel. So please, I ...
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What responsibility did Golda Meir have for the Yom Kippur war?
I read in the book "The Iron Wall" by Avi Shlaim, there was a description of the Yom Kippur war that happened due to Golda Meir's insistence on keeping parts of Sinai and not trading them to Egypt ...
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What machine technology did the Egyptians have to build the great pyramids?
Reading the "Account of Egypt" by Herodotus, it says of the great pyramid of "Cheops" (Macauley translation):
This pyramid was made after the manner of steps which some called
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Were any Egyptian pyramids designed to be half an octahedron? [closed]
Are there Egyptian pyramids which were modeled to resemble half an octahedron? Do the angles of some pyramids correspond to angles of an octahedron?
For those who don't know what an octahedron is: ...
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Do Egyptian mummies contain DNA? If so, was it viable enough to analyzed it? [closed]
I just had my DNA completed with 23andme and was wondering if we have any information regarding the ancestry of Epyptian mummies.
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What did Cleopatra's nose look like?
After some general searches in reference to the subject, I found that 'her beauty ... was in itself not altogether incomparable' and that 'She was a woman of surpassing beauty', as Plutarch and ...
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Why did a lot of major cities around the world obtain obelisks?
I am just wondering the significance of this. There is a large one in Washington DC and an old Egyptian one in New York. They have them in France, England, Spain, Canada, Australia etc. Wikipedia has ...
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Is there an example of Egypt recording defeat?
Some defenders of the Torah's historical accuracy respond to a lack of evidence for the exodus from Egypt with the claim that Egypt simply didn't make records of its negative events. For example, ...
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Why did the Arabs start the 1973 War during Ramadan, and did it affect their performance?
The Arab-Israeli War in 1973, besides the Jewish Holiday, also took place during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, during which practicing Muslims observe mandatory daytime fasting. Did this affect ...
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Why did Egypt forbid entry of Israeli ships into the Suez canal in 1956?
In 1956, as a response to withdrawal of American aid for the High Aswan dam, Nasser nationalized the Suez canal giving freedom of transit through it to all countries except Israel. Why did they do ...
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Contemporary opinions on Caliph Omar's burning of the library of Alexandria?
I read that his reasons were, "If those books are in agreement with the Quran, we have no need of them; and if these are opposed to the Quran, destroy them." How were his actions viewed by others?
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Why did the Arab League re-admit Egypt in 1989?
During the years 1979-1989, Egypt was suspended from the Arab League
in the wake of President Anwar Sadat's visit to Jerusalem and 1978
Camp David Peace Accords between Egypt and Israel. (See also:...
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