Countless inventions ... this hefty book, arranged in roughly chronological order, reveals that many items have been around longer than commonly realized: In 2000 B.C., Egyptian doctors were ...

"The invention of books was perhaps the greatest ... reeds could be used to make sheets for writing. A section of the Egyptian Book of the Dead that includes funerary manuscripts written on ...

The book’s author, Mikhail Maksi Iskander ... It is established, for instance, that monasticism and faith was purely an Egyptian invention. Dr. Zubaida Mohammed Atta maintains that: “the ...

The Weighing of the Hearts, as seen in an illustration within a copy of the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead. (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons) An Egyptian archaeologist managed to uncover a ...

The Library of Alexandria’s collection ranged from epic poems to recipe books and its prestige triggered a grandiose act in the world’s most famous love story: Mark Antony tried to woo ...

That tomb, says the book The Egyptian Museum in Cairo: A Walk through the Alleys of Ancient Egypt, is the earliest known examples of a painted tomb in the region. In the pre-Dynastic period ...

The Swiss Embassy in Cairo congratulated on Wednesday Egyptian inventors who won 11 medals at the 44th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva last week. Egypt won 7 gold medals, two silver ...

Young Egyptian scientist Mostafa Magdi al-Sawy was awarded the gold medal at the International Exhibition of Inventions in the United Arab Emirates for his project “The Smart Dam”. Al-Masry Al-Youm ...