Turkish Figure in The Short Stories of Naguib Mahfouz by Muhammet Mücahit Asutay

“…Presumably, he wrote these stories at a time when the civilization of the pharaohs was influential on the intelligentsia in society. …”
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Pan-Africanism by Raul Diaz Guevara

“…Furthermore, the fact that the Ritual of Resurrection began in the Delta region and ended at the Sources of the Nile, where the spirit of the deceased indigenous Pharaohs was introduced into the spiritual world of their ancestors, contradicts conventional perceptions that ancient Egypt was a distinct national community isolated from precolonial/prepolitical Africa/Azania.…”
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Plus que des mercenaires ! L’intégration des hommes de guerre grecs au service de la monarchie saïte by Damien Agut-Labordère

“…Exclusively depending from the king, the perfect loyalty of Greek servants of Saitic pharaohs was expressed by giving to their children the name of the ruling king. …”
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A mummy in Venice: preliminary report about a work in progress by Massimo Bazzocchi, Elvira D'Amicone, Maria Cristina DOssi, Francesco Toso, Luigi Vigna, Paolo Malvisi

“…Mummies are the most interesting discovery from ancient Egypt, and like the hieroglyphs, they have become a symbol of the civilization of the pharaohs. Interest grows even stronger when science and technology allow us to learn about what the ancient Egyptians carefully embalmed and prepared for the afterlife. …”
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Development of the concept of autonomy in the plastic arts by Néstor Peña Guarín

“…Therefore, spiritual guides (wizards, sorcerers, priests, etc.) political leaders (pharaohs, kings, emperors, dictators, etc.) or anyone who holds some power has been taking advantage of benefits in communication and expression art provides.…”
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Agriculture and the Origins of the State in Ancient Egypt. by Allen, R

“…This ability was greatest when the population was immobile. The success of the Pharaohs was due to the geography of Egypt--the deserts bordering the Nile meant that habitation was confined to the valley. …”

Las Islas Afortunadas de Juba II. Púnico-gaditanos y romano mauretanos en Canarias by Alfredo Mederos Martín, Gabriel Escribano Cobo

“…After to be married with Cleopatra Selene, he attempted to establish the beginning of a new Hellenistic Ptolemaic-Mauretanian dynasty, heiress of Great Alexander and the egyptian Pharaohs. In this project, he explored the territories of the South of Mauretania because he was waiting to f ind near his new kingdom the origin of the Nile river. …”
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Water as a social border in Ancient Egypt by Heidi Köpp-Junk

“…In the houses of the elite as well as the palaces of the pharaohs, however, there were not only separate bathrooms, but even toilets; both are attested c. 2700 BC for the first time, while such facilities are not represented in the houses of the lower class. …”
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Las Islas Afortunadas de Juba II. Púnico-gaditanos y romano mauretanos en Canarias by Alfredo Mederos Martín, Gabriel Escribano Cobo

“…After to be married with Cleopatra Selene, he attempted to establish the beginning of a new Hellenistic Ptolemaic-Mauretanian dynasty, heiress of Great Alexander and the egyptian Pharaohs. In this project, he explored the territories of the South of Mauretania because he was waiting to f ind near his new kingdom the origin of the Nile river. …”
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The demons of the air and the water of the Nile: Saint Anthony the Great on the reason of the inundation by Tóth, P

“…Henceforward the religious worship of the river and its water was so closely connected with the inundation that in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt the cult of the Nile with its ceremonies and rites has remained more or less the same as it was in the age of the Pharaohs.…”

Excavating the Modern Self: Haggard’s Egyptological Romances by Nolwenn CORRIOU

“…This paper examines the place Egypt occupies in Haggard’s imagination by considering some of the narrative and narratological elements shared by his Egyptological romances, with a particular focus on The Ancient Allan and “Smith and the Pharaohs”. The depiction of Egypt as an oneiric place located within the Victorian mind and as the origin of a layered modern identity suggests an ambivalent interpretation of Haggard’s imperialist stance at the turn of the twentieth century.…”
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THE RITUAL ROLE OF HONEY IN ANCIENT EGYPT, HATTI AND GREECE by ANGUS BOWIE

“…In Egypt, more particularly Lower Egypt, honey plays an important role in royal rituals linking the power, health and fertility of gods and pharaohs. By contrast among the Hittites honey, though involved in important rituals, especially those intended to ‘sweeten’ gods and make them appear amongst the gods or men, is only one ingredient among many. …”
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An Overview of Gender Equality in Egypt by Hend HASSAN

“…At a certain point in history Egyptian women ruled the country as queens and pharaohs. Unfortunately, moving into the present time the status of women in Egypt shows a profound retreat. …”
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Lake Qarun between entangled history and blurred future: Retrospectives and prospective by Adel Ali. Abdelmageed, Usama Khalifa, Hosam E. Elsaied, Amr Z. Hamouda, Safaa S. El Gelani

“…Lake Qarun is one of the oldest lakes in the world, a prehistoric lake, from the era of the pharaohs. It started as a freshwater lake and nowadays changed to become a saline lake due to climate changes and anthropogenic activities. …”
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Gold mining in the Eastern Desert of Egypt, from New Kingom to medieval times. New insight from the Samut district by Bérangère Redon, Julie Marchand, Thomas Faucher

“…Gold was plentiful in Egypt and had been used by the Pharaohs from the earliest times as a means of asserting their power. …”
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Influences of Egyptian Lotus Symbolism and Ritualistic Practices on Sacral Tree Worship in the Fertile Crescent from 1500 BCE to 200 CE by J. Andrew McDonald

“…Several of these motifs were associated singularly or collectively with the Egyptian sema-taui and ankh signs to symbolize the eternal recurrence and everlasting lives of Nilotic lotus deities and deceased pharaohs. The widespread use of lotus imagery in iconographic records on both sides of the Red Sea indicates strong currents of cultural diffusion between Nilotic and Mesopotamian civilizations, as does the use of lotus flowers in religious rituals and the practice of kingship, evidence for which is supported by iconographic, cuneiform and biblical records. …”
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In Bed with an Egyptian Princess: Herodotus on Theft, Pyramids and Conquest by Carmen Sánchez Mañas

“…Among the available examples, in this paper we focus on three Egyptian princesses, daughters of the pharaohs Rhampsinitus, Cheops and Amasis —in reality, Apries—, because they constitute precious instances for exploring the tensions arising in parent-child relationships in the Herodotean work. …”
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Vysoká přehrada: projekt a jeho důsledky // The High Dam: the project and its consequences by Mohamed Megahed, Hana Vymazalová

“…The project of the High Dam at Aswan is a continuation of an ancient tradition. The Egyptian pharaohs since the earliest periods of the Egyptian history made an effort to control the use of water of the Nile inundation for the benefit of the country’s agriculture. …”
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Tradiciones literarias y tradiciones históricas en Sinuhé, el egipcio de Waltari : los hititas bajo la óptica de un egipcio by Juan Manuel González Salazar

“…Waltari wrote The Egyptian (1945), a novel that narrates the vicissitudes of Sinuhe, a physician who lived in the Egypt of the Pharaohs of the 18th Dynasty. Amid this state of affairs the peoples ruled by Hatti gain relevance as a rival kingdom. …”
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The Tobacco Beetle in Egyptian Mummies by Dominique Görlitz by Stephen C. Jett

“…He here reviews the evidence concerning the presence of tobacco leaves, residues of nicotine and cocaine, and tobacco beetles in the tombs/mummies of the ancient Egyptian Pharaohs Ramses II and Tutankhamen. In this article, he contributes valuable information and observations additional to what is covered in this editor's earlier works (see Jett articles, Pre-Columbiana 2(4) and 3(1-3), of which Görlitz appears to be unaware).  …”
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