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“In the light of the above references, it is easy to recognize that the ancient Egyptians achieved a high degree of expertise in the understanding of time, far ahead of any people in so-called classical antiquity. Their astronomical skills, their construction of the pyramids, their mummification of the dead, their ancient Osirian myth, their… Read more

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“Thoth is, ‘par excellence, the discoverer of the arts.’ Through him, humanity owes Egypt numbers and computation, geometry, astronomy, the mathematical games of draughts and dice, and writing. Solon states that he himself traveled to Sais, in the Egyptian delta: ‘He was treated with great consideration by the inhabitants of the country. In… Read more

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“Phoenicians and Hebrews, Semitic peoples both, have acknowledged Egypt’s historical precedence on the way of civilization along, in all objectivity, with their debt to ancient Egypt. Greeks, and Indo-European people, have also acknowledged the civilizing role played by ancient Egypt in antiquity.”

“For example, Socrates, orating on… Read more

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“Apart from its strictly scientific and scholarly value, the medical universe of ancient Egypt had another—and no less fundamental—dimension. This was the ‘anthropological’ aspect, that quality thanks to which body and mind, illness and tradition, individual and society were all interconnected within a holistic healing context. For that reason,… Read more