Sentences with phrase «by pharaohs»

With his stunning good looks, it's no wonder the Egyptian Mau was worshipped by pharaohs and kings.

This breed is said to have been used to hunt by the pharaohs of Egypt.

It was so prized by the pharaohs of ancient Egypt that it was entombed with them so that they would have access to it in the afterlife.

Surgeon Hutan Ashrafian attributes Egypt's brief affair with monotheism to visions experienced by the pharaoh Akhenaten as a result of...

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People burned as witches, blacks lynched by Christians in this county, people killed in human sacrifices, servants killed to accompany pharaohs on their journeys to the afterlife, untold numbers of people killed in various cultures because they were deemed to have offended God in some way, and so on.

America had become Egypt, white rulers Pharaohs, slaves the oppressed Israelites who would be liberated by bloody plagues sent from heaven.

Oppressed by a series of cruel English Pharaohs, the people of God crossed the waters to discover a land flowing with milk and honey.

The parting of the waters described in the book of Exodus that enabled Moses and the Israelites to escape the pharaoh's army is possible, computer simulations run by researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the University of Colorado at Boulder show.

A most telling aspect of that rigidity was the oath by which each pharaoh bound himself to nip in the bud any attempt at calendar reform although it was sorely needed.

There, after enjoying initial favor, they were subjected to forced labor by the Egyptian pharaoh.

Roman emperor Augustus depicted as an Egyptian pharaoh wearing the nemes of folded clothThe ancient Egyptian nemes worn by the pharoahs was a kind of head - wrap or turban made of bands of folded striped cloth.

Yet each living pharaoh was hailed as an incarnation of Horus and, after death, was given the Osiris name by which he would be remembered.

Haroseth, a symbolic seder food, alludes to the mortar that the Jews used to build the pyramids when enslaved by the Egyptian pharaoh.

Super Eagles were forced to 1 - 1 draw by their Egyptian opponents, the Pharaohs, in Friday's Africa Cup of Nations...

[Jean - Michel] Aulas sounded the alarm, declaring that it was time for the club's «pharaohs» and «changing - room dinosaurs» to move on, and by the time the transfer window closed earlier this month, Hugo Lloris, Aly Cissokho, Kim Källström, Ederson, John Mensah and club captain Cris — among others — had all departed.»

In this adorable book, Buster and his three classmates learn about history by dressing up as knights, pharaohs, a Roman solider, and more.

«I think she left because she was never really a part of the cause,» said Carlos Pacheco, 62, of the Bronx, who made the pharaoh comment, and accused Quinn of «playing» politics by supporting the bill.

The glass itself, one large polished piece of which has a prominent place in a necklace that belonged to Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen, has been dated to 28.5 million years and has long been thought to be the result of a meteorite impact or an airburst caused by a comet breaking up in Earth's atmosphere.

The mountain was also considered a holy site by neighboring Egypt, whose pharaohs plundered and tyrannized Nubia for 400 years.

I work at Amarna, the short - lived capital built by «heretic» pharaoh Akhenaten in the 14th century BC.

«Mysterious head of a pharaoh discovered by Egyptologist.»

Radishes were grown in Egypt during the rule of the Pharaohs, were mentioned by the Chinese philosopher Confucius, and in ancient Greece they were served as vegetable sacrifices to the gods on golden platters.

The pomegranate tree originated in modern day Pakistan, but by the age of the Pharaohs, merchants had brought it all the way to Egypt.

Several ancient texts also described attempts by servants to clear the skins of pharaohs.

We shopped the collections by M dot and Robyn Rhodes and I found some stunning Egyptian pharaoh inspired gold earrings by Robyn Rhodes that I'm wearing today.

The authors of the Old Testament were also familiar with the plague stories told in their neighboring country, since Canaan and the kingdom of the pharaohs had by then been in close contact over many centuries.

Assassin's Creed Origins» Curse of the Pharaohs DLC was reviewed using a promotional code on Xbox One, as provided by the publisher.

Every bit as fusty as Robin Hood, Ridley Scott's biblical epic takes two off - beat, more or less mutually exclusive interpretations of Exodus — God is a delusion motivated by Moses» latent guilt; God is real, but only helping the Jews because he wants to punish the Pharaohs for deifying themselves — and flattens them into...

A businessman is to bury his Bentley Continental Flying Spur after being inspired by the Egyptian pharaohs

If you should decide to write a novel about a topic you know almost nothing about, a scholarly discipline requiring years to master, if you feel compelled to set the story in a land you've scarcely visited, during an era you can only dimly conjure from childhood reading and yellowed clippings, if you have followed your hyperactive and petulant imagination down a rabbit hole and there gazed at glowing, magical projections of inverted pyramids and pith - helmeted lunatics and pharaohs with unconventional appetites, but found little by way of actual knowledge, rest easy, because at the British Museum you will make a new friend: an expert who not only knows everything, but who is required — yes, required — to answer all your e-questions, no matter how many, how foolish, how wrong - headed, fantastic, or...

In ancient Egypt, this dog was often presented to Pharaohs as prized gifts but then in 1944, the Basenji was recognized by the American Kennel Club as being an incredible hunting dog capable of pointing and retrieving.

«Gods, Kings, and Pharaohs,» which takes voyagers to Israel, Egypt, and Jordan beginning in November 2018, and «Splendors of Egypt by Sea,» set to begin in December 2018, which has an itinerary that features Egypt and Jordan by sea.

Once a great pharaoh who ruled the Golden Desert long ago, Grave Clobber was buried by his seven jealous brothers in an underwater tomb while he was sleeping.

On Friday Ubisoft announced that the second expansion for Assassin's Creed Origins, The Curse of the Pharaohs, has had to be delayed by a week taking the release date back to the 13th March.

Our male protagonist, Bayek, hunts down artefacts that have been lifted by the light fingers of a grave robber, unleashing a flurry of zombie - like pharaohs across the plains of ancient Egypt.

It will be followed by The Curse of the Pharaohs which will be available in March.

Based on an archive founded by French - American arts patron Dominique de Menil in the 1960s, the series begins with the pharaohs and continues through the fall of the Roman Empire and the early Christian era, to the Age of Discovery and the Age of Abolition.

It was followed by «Satyagraha» (1980), loosely based on the life of Mahatma Gandhi, and then «Akhnaten» (1983), based on the life and religious convictions of the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten.

Monumental both in scale and ambition, Turning the Seventh Corner is a site - specific installation inspired by the tombs of the Egyptian Pharaohs which has been made in collaboration with the internationally acclaimed architect David Adjaye.

They include everything from information on the walls of Pharaohs tombs to crop reports such as the remarkable wine harvest record used in Times of Feast, Times of Famine by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie or the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) records I used to reconstruct almost 300 years.

I particularly like the private drawing of an Egyptian tomb - painter, who humorously12 depicts his god - pharaoh as a dog driving a chariot pulled by a rabbit13.

But fittingly for an animal once revered by the ancient pharaohs as the diplomat god Thoth, the complicated and much - delayed transfer is a sign of improving ties between two countries that had tense relations in the 1980s and 1990s, but have recently boosted cooperation, including easing visa restrictions.

Ancient Egypt Times: With barely enough pyramids to go around for the assorted pharaohs at any given time, opportunities to move into bigger pyramids were tough and slow going, with long waits for stone hauling and lifting by «workers» in the boiling Egyptian desert.