Imhotep is also the name of a fictional character played by Boris Karloff in the 1932 movie The Mummy, and of a similar character played by Arnold Vosloo in the 1999 movie The Mummy and its 2001 sequel The Mummy Returns. The architect Imhotep most likely provided the name (but just the name) for the character. 'Imhotep' is also the name of the mortuary priest in Agatha Christie's novel 'Death Comes as the End'. 'Imhotep' is also the name of wide receiver Imhotep Durham for the Virginia Cavaliers football team for the year of 2004. 'Imhotep' is also the name ...

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The Achaemenids were enlightened despots who allowed a certain amount of regional autonomy in the form of the satrapy system. A satrapy was an administrative unit, usually organized on a geographical basis. A satrap (governor) administered the region, a general supervised military recruitment and ensured order, and a state secretary kept official records. The general and the state secretary reported directly to the central government. The twenty satrapies were linked by a 2,500-kilometer highway, the most impressive stretch being the royal r ...

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An important Achaemenid artifact is the Cyrus Cylinder, a declaration issued by Cyrus the Great, son of the founder of the dynasty. Cyrus fought the Babylonians, eventually taking over and giving the Jews the freedom to practice their religion. Certain elements of Achaemenid religion show strong connections with Zoroastrianism, specifically in the use of fire altars and veneration of Ahura Mazda. In other ways, the Achaemenids departed from Zoroastrian traditions, as in their burial practices. Persians at the time were noted for their dedication to clear lines ...

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Achaemenid art, like Achaemenid religion, was a blend of many elements. Just as the Achaemenids were tolerant in matters of local government and custom, as long as Persians controlled the general policy and administration of the empire, so also were they tolerant in art so long as the finished and total effect was Persian. At Pasargadae, the capital of Cyrus the Great and Cambyses in Fars, the Persian homeland, and at Persepolis, the neighbouring city founded by Darius the Great and used by all of his successors, one can trace ...

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The founder of this dynasty was supposedly Achaemenes (Old Persian Haxāmaniš "Of Friendly Mind"). He was succeeded by his son Teispes (Cišpi), who first took the title King of Anšān after seizing that city from the Elamites. Inscriptions indicate that when Teispes died, two of his sons shared the throne as Cyrus I (Kūru), king of Anšān, and Ariaramnes (Ariyāramna "Having the Iranians at Peace"), king of Parsua (later called Pārsa "Persia", hence Fārsi, the native name for modern Per ...

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List of Basques - Journalists. Cristina Saralegui, television journalist (born in Cuba) List of Basques - Musicians. Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, composer Julián Gayarre, singer Jesús Guridi, composer Mikel Laboa, singer and songwriter Luis Mariano, singer Fermin Muguruza, singer and songwriter Maurice Ravel, composer Domingo Samuido, from Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs ...

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See Predynastic Egypt for inventions and other significant achievements in the Sahara region before the Protodynastic Period. The art and science of engineering was present in Egypt, such as accurately determining the position of points and the distances between them (known as surveying). These skills were used to outline pyramid bases. The Egyptian pyramids took the geometric shape formed from a polygonal base and a point, called the apex, by triangular faces. Hydraulic Cement was first invented by the Egyptians. The Al Fayyum Irriga ...

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Egypt is a transcontinental nation located mostly in North Africa, with the Sinai peninsula lying in Asia. The country has shorelines on the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea, and the Gulf of Suez; it borders Libya to the west, Sudan to the south, and the Gaza Strip, Palestine and Israel to the east. Ancient Egypt was divided into two kingdoms, known as Upper and Lower Egypt. The Nile river flows northward from a southerly point to the Mediterranean. The Nile river, around which much of the population of the country clusters, has been the lifeline for Egyptian cultu ...

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Archaeological findings show that nomadic hunter-gatherers lived along the Nile during the Pleistocene. Traces of these early peoples appear in the form of artifacts and rock carvings along the terraces of the Nile and in the oases. By about 6000 B.C., organized agriculture and large building construction had appeared in the Nile Valley. Many theories have been proposed regarding the origins of these early Egyptians, but the most widely accepted today based on the continuum of scientific evidence is that prehistoric Egyptian society was form ...

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It is particularly noteworthy that the basic elements of Egyptian culture were remarkably stable and changed little over a period of nearly 3000 years. The religion, customs, art expression, architecture, and social structure, over that time are "un-mistakably" Egyptian. The history of ancient Egypt proper starts with Egypt as a unified state, which occurred sometime around 3000 BC. Narmer, who unified Upper and Lower Egypt, was the first pharaoh, though archaeological evi ...

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Ancient Egyptian constitutes an independent branch of the Afro-Asiatic language phylum. Its closest relatives are the Berber, Semitic, and Beja groups of languages. Written records of the Egyptian language have been dated from about 3200 BC, making it one of the oldest and longest documented languages. Scholars group Egyptian into six major chronological divisions: Archaic Egyptian (before 3000 BC) Consists of inscriptions from the late Predynastic and Early Dynastic period. The earliest known evidence of Egyptian hieroglyphic w ...

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The Egyptian religions, embodied in Egyptian mythology, were the succession of beliefs held by the people of Egypt, until the coming of Christianity and Islam. These were conducted by Egyptian priests or magicians, but the use of magic and spells is questioned. The religious nature of ancient Egyptian civilization influenced its contribution to the arts of the ancient world. Many of the great works of ancient Egypt depict gods, goddesses, and phara ...

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Sa-Sl - Sm-St List of rock and roll albums - Sa-Sl. Salif Keita - Folon (15) Sam & Dave - The Best of Sam & Dave (4) Sam Cooke - The Man and His Music (3, 8) Sam Cooke - This Is (9) Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs - The Best of Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs (4) Santana - Abraxas (1, 2, 5, 12, 17) Santana - Caravanserai (10) Scott Walker - Scott 3 (18) Se ...

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Histories Herodotus - Book I Clio. The rulers of Lydia (on the west coast of modern Turkey): Candaules, Gyges, Alyattes, Crœsus How Gyges took the kingdom from Candaules The singer Arion's ride on the dolphin Solon's answer to Crœsus's question that Tellus was the happiest person in the world Crœsus's efforts to protect his son Atys, his son's accidental death by Adrastus Crœsus's test of the oracles The answer from the Oracle of Delphi concerning wh ...

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List of fictional rulers - Qo'nos Star Trek. Chancellor M'Rek (mid-22nd century) Chancellor Gorkon (died 2293) Chancellor Azetbur (beginning 2293) Chancellor Mow'ga (2nd Empire) Chancellor K'mpec (died 2367) Chancellor Gowron (2367-2375) Chancellor Martok (beginning 2375) List of fictional rulers - Galactic Republic Star Wars. Chancellor Kalpana

In the Tanach, Joseph intrepreted the dreams of the Pharaoh of Egypt; Daniel also interpreted dreams. Artemidorus gives a list of authors mentioned in this longest of the ancient dreambooks. All are lost, but fragments are preserved in Artemidorus and other ancient authors. Aristotle and Plato both discuss dreams in various works. Achmet wrote an edition of Artemidorus Oneirocritica in addition to his own. Astrampsychus was the pseudonymous author of a number of divinatory, magical and medical wor ...

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Amenhotep IV was married to Nefertiti at the very beginning of his reign, and the couple had six known daughters. This is a list with suggested years of birth: Meritaten - year 1. Meketaten - year 2. Ankhesenpaaten, later Queen of Tutankhamun - year 3. Neferneferuaten Tasherit - year 5. Neferneferure - year 6. Setepenre - year 8. His known consorts were: Nefertiti, his Great Royal Wife early in his reign. Kiya, a lesser Royal Wife. Meritate ...

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Season 1 1. The Awakening 2. Curse of the Pharaoh 3. Clash of the Shabtis 4. I Did It My Way 5. The Boat of Millions of Years 6. The Powerful One 7. There's Something About Natasha 8. King of Memphis 9. Roommates 10. Ghostbusted 11. Near Dead Experience 12. The Unsafety Zone 13. Happy Coronation Day, Tutenstein Season 2 14. Friends 15. Green-Eyed Mummy 16. The Shadow Gobbler 17. Tut Jr. 18. Something Sphinx 19. The Supreme Tut 20. Old Man Tut 21. Cl ...

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Along the Nile, in the 10th millennium BC, a grain-grinding culture using the earliest type of sickle blades had become replaced by another culture of hunters, fishers and gathering peoples using stone tools. Climate changes and/or overgrazing around 8000 BC began to desiccate the pastoral lands of Egypt, eventually forming the Sahara (c. 2500 BC). Early tribes naturally migrated to the Nile river where they developed a settled agricultural economy and more centralized society (see Nile: History). Evidence of pastoralism and cultivat ...

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The origins of the unified Egyptian state are unclear, and there are no contemporary sources, and later sources are unclear and contradictory. Around 3100 BC a king unified the whole of the Nile Valley between the Delta and the First Cataract at Aswan, with the centre of power in Memphis. Traditionally (according to Manetho), this king was known as Menes. This king may be identified as one the individuals kno ...

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Egyptologists consider the Old Kingdom as beginning with the Third Dynasty, and around the time of the Fourth Dynasty, the art of embalming began. History of Ancient Egypt - Embalming mummification and preservation. A cautionary note about embalming, mummification and preservation: To embalm and to mummify essentially mean the same thing. To embalm (from Latin in balsamum, meaning to "put into balsam," a mixture of aromatic resins) and the process of mummification are very similar in that corpses we ...

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This era includes the Fifth and Sixth Dynasties and into the First Intermediate Period. The Old Kingdom became weakened by famine and weak leadership. One theory holds that a sudden, unanticipated, catastrophic reduction in the Nile floods over two or three decades, caused by a global climatic cooling, reduced the amount of rainfall in Egypt, Ethiopia, and East Africa, contributing to the great famine and subsequent downfall of the Old Kingdom. The last pharaoh of the Sixth Dynasty was Pepi II, who was believed to have reigned for 94 ...

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History of Ancient Egypt, History of Ancient Egypt - Egyptian chronology, History of Ancient Egypt - Protodynastic Period, History of Ancient Egypt - Early Dynastic Period, History of Ancient Egypt - Old Kingdom, History of Ancient Egypt - Embalming mummification and preservation, History of Ancient Egypt - Upper and Lower Egypt, History of Ancient Egypt - Pyramids, History of Ancient Egypt - First Intermediate Period, History of Ancient Egypt - Middle Kingdom, History of Ancient Egypt - Second Intermediate Period, History of Ancient Egypt - New Kingdom, History of Ancient Egypt - Eighteenth Dynasty, History of Ancient Egypt - Nineteenth Dynasty, History of Ancient Egypt - New Kingdom mummies, History of Ancient Egypt - Third Intermediate Period, History of Ancient Egypt - Late Period, History of Ancient Egypt - Open problems

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