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The shadoof appeared in Upper Egypt sometime after 2000 BC, most likely during the 18th Dynasty. [3] Around the same time, the shadoof reached China. Some historians believe the Egyptians were the original inventors of the shadoof. The theory states that the shadoof originated along the Nile, using tomb drawings illustrating shadoofs at Thebes ...
Hazz al-quhuf is composed in the style of a literary commentary on a 42-line poem purported to be written by a peasant (Arabic: فلاح, fallāḥ) named Abu Shaduf. [1] In his commentary, al-Shirbini describes different customs of peasants and urban dwellers, and notes regional distinctions between the Sa'idi people of Upper Egypt, people of the Nile Delta in Lower Egypt, and the poorest ...
Athena became the patron goddess of the city of Athens in a competition with Poseidon, as judged by Cecrops. The two raced ferociously towards the Acropolis and it was a very close race. Poseidon was the first to reach Attica and struck the acropolis with his trident and thereby created a salt sea which was known in later times by the name of ...
Diversion dam — The first Diversion dam is Sadd el-Kafara Dam built in Egypt around 2700 B.C. [19]; Noria — Norias appeared in Egypt in the 4th Century B.C. [20]; Beekeeping — domesticated Beekeeping was first recorded in ancient Egypt around 2600 B.C. [21] [22] as well as the first use of smoke while extracting the honey from bee nests.
Athens is one of the oldest named cities in the world, having been continuously inhabited for perhaps 5,000 years. Situated in southern Europe, Athens became the leading city of ancient Greece in the first millennium BC, and its cultural achievements during the 5th century BC laid the foundations of Western civilization.
The Egyptian city of Cairo was founded by the Fatimid Caliphate and served as its capital city. At the time, Cairo was second only to Baghdad , capital of the rival Abbasid Caliphate . After the fall of Baghdad , however, Cairo overtook it as the largest city in the Mediterranean region until the early modern period .
The "Abu Ruf" quarter in Omdurman, Sudan, still today named after Averoff, here on a 1914 map Averoff's grave in the First Cemetery of Athens. Statue commemorating Averoff in Athens George M. Averoff (15 August 1815 – 15 July 1899), alternately Jorgos Averof or Georgios Averof (in Greek : Γεώργιος Αβέρωφ), was a Greek ...
Aten, properly called The Dazzling Aten [a] though dubbed initially by archaeologists the Rise of Aten, [1] [b] is the remains of an ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile [2] in the Theban Necropolis near Luxor. Named after Egyptian sun god Aten, the city appears to