Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 26th, 2007
The modern word of paper is derived from the ancient Egyptian term of ‘papyrus’ which was arguably one of the most important inventions of the time.
The word papyrus means something along the lines of ‘a thing that belongs to the house’ which experts have interpreted as meaning it was a fundamental part of the bureaucracy [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 22nd, 2007
Carved in 196 BC, the Rosetta Stone was the key to deciphering the ancient Egyptian language.
It was discovered by soldiers in Napoleon’s army in 1799 whilst they were digging fortifications at el-Rashid (Rosetta), in Lower Egypt. On the 15th July of that year Captain Pierre Bouchard was supervising the engineering works of a new fort [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 20th, 2007
My main interest in writing here stems from my time spent in Egypt. My first trip to that wonderful land was back in 1980. Fortunately, I attended a school that considered foreign travel and discovery to be an extremely worthwhile activity. They also heavily subsidised the cost too, allowing just about everyone in my year [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 20th, 2007
The ancient Egyptians made their own clothes from what their environment and nature gave them. Egypt has mostly a hot climate thus the use of clothes reflect material that is lightweight to suit this type of climate. The ancient Egyptians thus used clothes made of linen. For reading more articles about ancient Egypt click on: [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 21st, 2007
EgyptBC has been around on the internet for some time now, having originally been a traditional website encoded in php. However, last year, all was lost due to major server issues with what proved to be an unreliable host.
Typically, I didn’t have a backup of my site, and only had a small proportion of my [...]