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Egyptian: Encyclopedia II - Egyptian pyramids - Construction

The techniques used to construct Egypt's pyramids are thought to have initially been developed by trial and error[7], and then further evolved based on local economics, resources, and other considerations, over the thousand year pyramid-building phase of Egyptian civilization. Recently-discovered worker's tombs have shown how pyramids were made and how im ...

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Egyptian: Encyclopedia II - Demotic Egyptian - Script

The Demotic script (formerly referred to as Enchorial Egyptian) was used for more than a thousand years, and during that time a number of developmental stages occurred. Demotic Egyptian - Early Demotic. Early Demotic (often referred to by the German term Frühdemotisch) developed in Lower Egypt during the later part of the 25th Dynasty, particularly on stelae from the Serapeum at Saqqara. It is generally dated between 650 and 400 BCE as most texts written in Early Demotic are dated to the 26t ...

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Demotic Egyptian, Demotic Egyptian - Script, Demotic Egyptian - Early Demotic, Demotic Egyptian - Middle Ptolemaic Demotic, Demotic Egyptian - Late Roman Demotic, Demotic Egyptian - Language, Demotic Egyptian - Decipherment

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Egyptian: Encyclopedia II - Egyptian pound - History

In 1834, a Royal Decree promulgating a Parliamentary Bill was issued providing for the issuing of an Egyptian currency based on a bimetallic base. In 1836 the Egyptian pound was minted and put into circulation. The pound was originally divided into 100 piastres, each of 40 para. In 1885, the para ceased to be issued and the piastre was divided into tenths (oshr al-qirsh). These tenths were renamed milliemes in 1916. The legal exchange rates were fixed by force of law for important foreign currencies which became acceptable in the settlement of internal transactions. Eventually this led to Egypt using a ...

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Egyptian pound, Egyptian pound - History, Egyptian pound - Banknotes and coins, Egyptian pound - Current EGP exchange rates, Egyptian pound - Historical Exchange Rates, Egyptian pound - External link

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Egyptian: Encyclopedia II - Egyptian mythology - Gods

Early beliefs can be split into 5 distinct localized groups, the Ennead of Heliopolis, whose chief god was Atum the Ogdoad of Hermopolis, where the chief god was Ra the Chnum-Satet-Anuket triad of Elephantine, where the chief god was Chnum the Amun-Mut-Chons triad of Thebes, where the chief god was Amun the Ptah-Sekhmet-Nefertem triad of Memphis, unusual in that the gods were unconnected before the triad was form ...

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Egyptian mythology, Egyptian mythology - Gods, Egyptian mythology - Death, Egyptian mythology - The monotheistic period, Egyptian mythology - Temples, Egyptian mythology - External influences, Egyptian mythology - Notes on pronunciation

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Egyptian: Encyclopedia II - Egyptian Ratscrew - Strategy

Although the game primarily rests upon the luck of the draw from each player's stack of cards, the slapping aspect introduces skill, and this aspect can be played strategically. The most common strategy is memorizing doubles. If a player slaps the pile when doubles occur and claims the cards, he knows that the doubles will occur in that order once they reach the top of his pack. If he is laying down consecutive cards at that point, he has an advantage against other players because he does not have to visually recognize the set of doubles before slapping. Experienced players can take this strategy further by memorizing which cards pr ...

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Egyptian Ratscrew, Egyptian Ratscrew - Gameplay, Egyptian Ratscrew - Variations, Egyptian Ratscrew - Slapping variations, Egyptian Ratscrew - Penalties, Egyptian Ratscrew - Other variations, Egyptian Ratscrew - Strategy, Egyptian Ratscrew - History, Egyptian Ratscrew - External link

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Egyptian: Encyclopedia II - Egyptian numerals - Fractions

Main article: Egyptian fraction Rational numbers could also be expressed, but only as sums of unit fractions, i.e. sums of reciprocals of positive integers, except for 2/3 and 3/4. The hieroglyph indicating a fraction looked like a mouth, which meant "part": Fractions were written with this fractional solidus, i.e. the numerator 1, and the positive denominator below. Thus, 1/3 was written as: There were special symbols for 1/2 and for two non-unit fractions, 2/3 (used frequently) and 3/4 (used less frequently): If the denominator became too large, the "mouth" was just ...

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Egyptian numerals, Egyptian numerals - Digits and numbers, Egyptian numerals - Fractions, Egyptian numerals - Addition and subtraction, Egyptian numerals - Written numbers, Egyptian numerals - Hieratic numerals

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Egyptian: Encyclopedia II - Egyptian Ratscrew - Gameplay

Players are dealt equal packs of cards (or as close as possible) from the deck. Players are not to look at their cards at any time, including while placing them upon the center pile (players should flip cards outwards from the top of their pack). A player begins by placing a card face-up to start a central pile. Play proceeds clockwise (or counterclockwise; really you can choose any order) and each player lays down a single card on the pile until a face card or ace is played. The next player then has a certain number of chances to play anoth ...

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Egyptian Ratscrew, Egyptian Ratscrew - Gameplay, Egyptian Ratscrew - Variations, Egyptian Ratscrew - Slapping variations, Egyptian Ratscrew - Penalties, Egyptian Ratscrew - Other variations, Egyptian Ratscrew - Strategy, Egyptian Ratscrew - History, Egyptian Ratscrew - External link

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Egyptian: Encyclopedia II - Egyptian mythology - Death

Egypt was possibly the first civilization to have any belief in an afterlife, and probably the first to have a positive outlook on it. Beliefs about the soul and afterlife focused heavily on preservation of the body, or ba (The soul was known as the ka). This meant that embalming and mummification were practiced, in order to preserve the individual's identity in the afterlife. Originally the dead were buried in reed caskets in the searing hot sand, which caused the remains to dry quickly, preventing decomposition, and were subsequently burie ...

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Egyptian mythology, Egyptian mythology - Gods, Egyptian mythology - Death, Egyptian mythology - The monotheistic period, Egyptian mythology - Temples, Egyptian mythology - External influences, Egyptian mythology - Notes on pronunciation

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Egyptian: Encyclopedia II - Egyptian mythology - Temples

Many temples are still standing today. Others are in ruins from wear and tear, while others have been lost entirely. Pharaoh Ramses II was a particularly prolific builder of temples. Some known temples include: Abu Simbel – Complex of two massive rock temples in southern Egypt on the western bank of the Nile. Abydos (Great Temple of Abydos) – Adoration of the early kings, whose cemetery, to which it forms a great funerary chapel, lies behind it. Ain el-Muftella (Bahariya Oasis) [2] – Could have ser ...

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Egyptian mythology, Egyptian mythology - Gods, Egyptian mythology - Death, Egyptian mythology - The monotheistic period, Egyptian mythology - Temples, Egyptian mythology - External influences, Egyptian mythology - Notes on pronunciation

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Egyptian: Encyclopedia II - Egyptian mathematics - Numerals

Main article: Egyptian numerals The numeral system used in ancient Egypt is a decimal system, written in hieroglyphs and hieratic. Both systems existed from at least the Early Dynastic Period. (It should be noted that the hieratic system does not differ from the hieroglyphic system beyond a use of simplifying ligatures for rapid writing.) The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus is written in hieratic, and contains many examples of how t ...

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Egyptian mathematics, Egyptian mathematics - Numerals, Egyptian mathematics - Multiplication, Egyptian mathematics - Fractions, Egyptian mathematics - Geometry

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Egyptian: Encyclopedia II - Egyptian mathematics - Multiplication

Egyptian multiplication was done by repeated doubling of the number to be multiplied (the multiplicand), and choosing which of the doublings to add together (essentially a form of binary arithmetic). The multiplicand would be written out next to the figure 1, then the multiplicand would be added to itself (i.e. doubled) and would be written out next to the number 2, and so on, until the doublings gave a number greater than half of the number to be multiplied by (the multiplier). Then, the doubled numbers (1, 2, etc.) would be repeatedly subtracted from the multiplier to select which of the results of the existing calc ...

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Egyptian mathematics, Egyptian mathematics - Numerals, Egyptian mathematics - Multiplication, Egyptian mathematics - Fractions, Egyptian mathematics - Geometry

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Egyptian: Encyclopedia II - Egyptian mathematics - Fractions

Main article: Egyptian fraction Rational numbers could also be expressed, but only as sums of unit fractions, i.e. sums of reciprocals of positive integers, except for 2/3 and (rarely) 3/4. The hieroglyph indicating a fraction looked like a mouth, which meant "part", and fractions were written with this fractional solidus, i.e. the numerator 1, and the positive denominator below. Special symbols were used for 1/2 and for two non-unit fractions, 2/3 ...

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Egyptian mathematics, Egyptian mathematics - Numerals, Egyptian mathematics - Multiplication, Egyptian mathematics - Fractions, Egyptian mathematics - Geometry

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Egyptian: Encyclopedia II - Egyptian fraction - Notation

A hieroglyph indicating the Eye of Horus denoted the fractional solidus, with a number hieroglyph written below this "open mouth" icon to denote the denominator of the fraction. So, is one representation of an Old Kingdom Horus-Eye series. However, Ahmes (1650 BCE) would have have selected another series using his standard thinking, or 5/7 − 1/2 = (10 − 7)/(2·7) = (2 + 1)/14 Th ...

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Egyptian fraction, Egyptian fraction - Fractions in Egypt, Egyptian fraction - Notation

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Egyptian: Encyclopedia II - Egyptian language - Development of the language

Scholars group the Egyptian language into six major chronological divisions: Archaic Egyptian (before 2600 BC) Old Egyptian (2600 BC - 2000 BC) Middle Egyptian (2000 BC - 1300 BC) Late Egyptian (1300 BC - 700 BC) Demotic (seventh century BC - fifth century AD) Coptic (fourth - fourteenth century AD) It should be noted that Egyptian writing in the form of label and signs has been dated to 3000 BC. These early texts ...

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Egyptian language, Egyptian language - Development of the language, Egyptian language - Structure of the language, Egyptian language - Notes on pronunciation, Egyptian language - Egyptian writing, Egyptian language - Overview, Egyptian language - Hieroglyphs, Egyptian language - Modern-day resources

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Egyptian: Encyclopedia II - Egyptian language - Development of the language

Scholars group the Egyptian language into six major chronological divisions: Archaic Egyptian (before 2600 BC) Old Egyptian (2600 BC - 2000 BC) Middle Egyptian (2000 BC - 1300 BC) Late Egyptian (1300 BC - 700 BC) Demotic (seventh century BC - fifth century AD) Coptic (fourth - fourteenth century AD) It should be noted that Egyptian writing in the form of label and signs has been dated to 3200 BC. These early texts ...

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Egyptian language, Egyptian language - Development of the language, Egyptian language - Structure of the language, Egyptian language - Notes on pronunciation, Egyptian language - Egyptian writing, Egyptian language - Overview, Egyptian language - Hieroglyphs, Egyptian language - Modern-day resources

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Egyptian: Encyclopedia II - Egyptian language - Structure of the language

Egyptian is a fairly typical Afro-Asiatic language. At the heart of Egyptian vocabulary is a root of three consonants. Sometimes there were only two, for example /r'/ "sun" (where the apostrophe represents a voiced pharyngeal fricative); others, such as /nfr/, which means beautiful; and some could be as large as five /sxdxd/ "be upside-down". Vowels and other consonants were then added to this root in order to derive words, in the same way as Arabic, Hebrew, and other Afro-Asiatic languages do today. However, we do not know what these vowels ...

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Egyptian language, Egyptian language - Development of the language, Egyptian language - Structure of the language, Egyptian language - Notes on pronunciation, Egyptian language - Egyptian writing, Egyptian language - Overview, Egyptian language - Hieroglyphs, Egyptian language - Modern-day resources

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Egyptian: Encyclopedia II - Transliteration of ancient Egyptian - Standards

As important as transliteration is to the field of Egyptology, there is no one single standard scheme in use for hieroglyphic and hieratic texts. Some might even argue that there are as many systems of transliteration as there are Egyptologists. However, there are a few closely related systems that can be regarded as conventional. Many non-German-speaking Egyptologists use the system described in Gardiner 1954, whereas many German-speaking scholars tend to opt for that used in the Wörterbuch der aegyptischen Sprache (Erman and Grapow ...

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Transliteration of ancient Egyptian, Transliteration of ancient Egyptian - Standards, Transliteration of ancient Egyptian - Electronic Transliteration, Transliteration of ancient Egyptian - Unicode, Transliteration of ancient Egyptian - Demotic, Transliteration of ancient Egyptian - Table of conventional transliteration schemes, Transliteration of ancient Egyptian - Samples of various transliteration schemes

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Egyptian: Encyclopedia II - Egyptian pyramids - Historic development

By the time of the early Dynastic period of Egyptian history, those with sufficient means were buried in visually unremarkable bench-like structures[3] known as mastabas.[4] The first historically documented Egyptian pyramid is attributed to the architect Imhotep ...

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Egyptian pyramids, Egyptian pyramids - Historic development, Egyptian pyramids - Construction, Egyptian pyramids - Pyramid symbolism, Egyptian pyramids - Pyramid sites, Egyptian pyramids - Abu Rawash, Egyptian pyramids - Giza, Egyptian pyramids - Zawyet el-Aryan, Egyptian pyramids - Abu Sir, Egyptian pyramids - Saqqara, Egyptian pyramids - Dahshur, Egyptian pyramids - Lisht, Egyptian pyramids - Meidum, Egyptian pyramids - Hawarra, Egyptian pyramids - el-Lahun, Egyptian pyramids - Notes

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Egyptian: Encyclopedia II - Egyptian numerals - Addition and subtraction

For plus and minus signs, the hieroglyphs were used: if the feet pointed into the direction of writing, it signified addition, otherwise subtraction. ...

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Egyptian numerals, Egyptian numerals - Digits and numbers, Egyptian numerals - Fractions, Egyptian numerals - Addition and subtraction, Egyptian numerals - Written numbers, Egyptian numerals - Hieratic numerals

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Egyptian: Encyclopedia II - Egyptian hieroglyph - History and evolution

Symbols on Gerzean pottery, c.4000 BC, resemble traditional hieroglyph writing [1]. For many years, the earliest known hieroglyphic inscription was the Narmer Palette, found during excavations at Hierakonpolis (modern Kawm al-Ahmar) in the 1890s, which has been dated to c.3200 BC. However, in 1998 a German archeological team under Gunter Dreyer excavating at Abydos (modern Umm el-Qa'ab) uncovered tomb U-j which belonged to a Predynastic ruler, and recovered three hundred clay labels inscribed with proto-hieroglyphics, dating to ...

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Egyptian hieroglyph, Egyptian hieroglyph - Etymology, Egyptian hieroglyph - History and evolution, Egyptian hieroglyph - Script, Egyptian hieroglyph - Uniliteral signs, Egyptian hieroglyph - Examples

Read more here: » Egyptian hieroglyph: Encyclopedia II - Egyptian hieroglyph - History and evolution

Egyptian: Encyclopedia II - Egyptian pyramids - Pyramid symbolism

The shape of Egyptian pyramids is thought to represent the primordial mound from which the Egyptians believed the earth was created. The shape is also thought to be representative of the descending rays of the sun, and most pyramids were faced with polished, highly reflective white limestone, in order to give them a brilliant appearance when viewed from a distance. Pyramids were often also named in ways that made reference to solar luminescence. For example, the formal name of the Bent Pyramid at Dahshur was The Southern Shining Pyramid, and that of ...

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Egyptian pyramids, Egyptian pyramids - Historic development, Egyptian pyramids - Construction, Egyptian pyramids - Pyramid symbolism, Egyptian pyramids - Pyramid sites, Egyptian pyramids - Abu Rawash, Egyptian pyramids - Giza, Egyptian pyramids - Zawyet el-Aryan, Egyptian pyramids - Abu Sir, Egyptian pyramids - Saqqara, Egyptian pyramids - Dahshur, Egyptian pyramids - Lisht, Egyptian pyramids - Meidum, Egyptian pyramids - Hawarra, Egyptian pyramids - el-Lahun, Egyptian pyramids - Notes

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