Egypt

There are 654 items in Egypt:

Eratosthenes of Cyrene

Eratosthenes of Cyrene (c.275-192): mathematician, geographer, astronomer, social theorist, historian, scholar, librarian in Alexandria.One of the students of the great poet Callimachus of Cyrene was Eratosthenes of Cyrene (c.275-192 BCE), who became librarian in the Museum, the scientific institute of…

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Fayyum

Fayyum or Lake Moeris: large lake in Egypt, about 80 kilometer southwest of Memphis. Soknopaiou Nesos, Stele of Isis, Horus, and…

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