Egypt
- Nilometer - Egypt Was Ruled From Here
Cairobserver The level of Nile water has been measured for 5000 years to predict farming production. This current Nilometer, or Miqias in Arabic, on the southern tip of Roda Island dates back to 715 AD making it one of Cairo’s oldest sites...
- Book Review: A Manual Of Egyptian Pottery
PalArch (Review by Augusto Gayubas) Wodzińska, A. 2009. A Manual of Egyptian Pottery. Volume 1: Fayum A-Lower Egyptian Culture. - Boston, Ancient Egypt Research Associates Dr. Anna Wodzińska, who works at the Institute of Archaeology of the University...
- New Booklet : Travellers Graffiti
Thanks to Roger De Keersmaecker for the following information: Travellers' Graffiti from Egypt and the Sudan-Volume VI: Thebes The Mortuary Temple of Sethos I (Qurna) The Temple of Hathor (Deir el-Medina) As far as possible, biographical and bibliographical...
- Pi, Phi And The Great Pyramid - Updated
Al Ahram Weekly (Assem Deif) UPDATE: Author Assem Deif emailed me yesterday to ask me to post a correction that was not made in the original article The editor of Al-Ahram wrote a sentence in line 4 of the 2nd paragraph, he said: They worked out that...
- Records Of Ancient Egypt (round 2)
Records of ancient Egypt by James Henry Breasted This collection of books is a long read but also it takes the reader back to the rules of how to be an ancient Egyptian. The first volume deals with Egypt up to its Seventeenth Dynasty http://www.etana.org/abzu/coretext.pl?RC=14896...
Egypt
Online: An Ancient Relation between Units of Length and Volume Based on a Sphere
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An Ancient Relation between Units of Length and Volume Based on a Sphere
Elena Zapassky, Yuval Gadot, Israel Finkelstein, Itzhak Benenson
An Ancient Relation between Units of Length and Volume Based on a Sphere
Elena Zapassky, Yuval Gadot, Israel Finkelstein, Itzhak Benenson
Abstract
The modern metric system defines units of volume based on the cube. We propose that the ancient Egyptian system of measuring capacity employed a similar concept, but used the sphere instead. When considered in ancient Egyptian units, the volume of a sphere, whose circumference is one royal cubit, equals half a hekat. Using the measurements of large sets of ancient containers as a database, the article demonstrates that this formula was characteristic of Egyptian and Egyptian-related pottery vessels but not of the ceramics of Mesopotamia, which had a different system of measuring length and volume units.
- Nilometer - Egypt Was Ruled From Here
Cairobserver The level of Nile water has been measured for 5000 years to predict farming production. This current Nilometer, or Miqias in Arabic, on the southern tip of Roda Island dates back to 715 AD making it one of Cairo’s oldest sites...
- Book Review: A Manual Of Egyptian Pottery
PalArch (Review by Augusto Gayubas) Wodzińska, A. 2009. A Manual of Egyptian Pottery. Volume 1: Fayum A-Lower Egyptian Culture. - Boston, Ancient Egypt Research Associates Dr. Anna Wodzińska, who works at the Institute of Archaeology of the University...
- New Booklet : Travellers Graffiti
Thanks to Roger De Keersmaecker for the following information: Travellers' Graffiti from Egypt and the Sudan-Volume VI: Thebes The Mortuary Temple of Sethos I (Qurna) The Temple of Hathor (Deir el-Medina) As far as possible, biographical and bibliographical...
- Pi, Phi And The Great Pyramid - Updated
Al Ahram Weekly (Assem Deif) UPDATE: Author Assem Deif emailed me yesterday to ask me to post a correction that was not made in the original article The editor of Al-Ahram wrote a sentence in line 4 of the 2nd paragraph, he said: They worked out that...
- Records Of Ancient Egypt (round 2)
Records of ancient Egypt by James Henry Breasted This collection of books is a long read but also it takes the reader back to the rules of how to be an ancient Egyptian. The first volume deals with Egypt up to its Seventeenth Dynasty http://www.etana.org/abzu/coretext.pl?RC=14896...