Stories: Egypt

Stories connected to Egypt.

• There was a pet cemetery about 2,000 years ago.At Berenike in Egypt, a first- to second-century animal cemetery contains more than 580 cats, dogs and monkey…
• Where should light hit a curved mirror? Leonardo tried a device.Alhazen's problem asks where light must strike a spherical mirror to travel between two points. The 11th-cent…
• A fishing contest in a desert. Jesus versus the devil.A Coptic Christian homily probably composed in Egypt between the sixth and eighth centuries imagines the devi…
• She thought her film was gone. It resurfaced 35 years later.A 1973 short film of singer Zeinab Shaath was among cultural materials seized by Israeli forces during the 19…
• Beneath a giant tomb lay at least 30,000 stone vessels.Unrobbed galleries under Djoser's Step Pyramid held at least 30,000 stone vessels, weighing about 90 tonnes i…
• Modern senet uses reconstructed rulesAncient Egyptian senet used a thirty-square board, but its exact original rules are unknown. Modern play foll…
• Koshary does not choose one starchEgyptian koshary combines ingredients including rice, pasta and lentils, topped with tomato sauce and fried o…
• Steam could spin a sphere two millennia agoAround the first century CE, Hero of Alexandria described a sphere rotated by jets of steam from bent tubes.…
• A water organ that sounded with airThe ancient hydraulis is attributed to Ctesibius of Alexandria in the third century BCE. Hand pumps supplied…
• The shipment arrived with more camels than it began withIn 1855, Congress funded an experiment using camels for US military transport. A team acquired 33 animals aro…