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The Byzantine cconomy was one of the largest systems throughout Europe and the Mediterannean for many centuries. Both local and international trade were of immense importance for the Byzantine Empire. Lower category. including bargainers. depended on the upper category. Their demand of the foreign goods in order to remain in Local trade was much less…

The Egyptians and Greeks were both influential civilizations in history, making significant contributions to art. While there are similarities between Greek and Egyptian art, there are also noticeable differences. The main contrast lies in their artistic principles and freedoms. Egyptian art was mainly influenced by religion, with pharaohs commissioning symbolic or ceremonial artwork that adhered…

How would you compare the life of the poor Egyptian boy in ‘The Conjurer Made off with the Dish’ with that of a poor boy living in a metropolitan city like Karachi? “The day was passing and soon mysterious darkness would descend”. This is how Naguib Mahfouz’s story ends. A short story filled with a…

Introduction Through an overwhelming exposure perpetuated through large scale use in mass media, literature, advertisement and other aspects of popular culture, the Egyptian variant of Arabic, commonly referred to as Misra, is presently one of the most widely recognized variants of what is understood as Standard Arabic, a derivation of Classical Arabic. Although it is…

For ages the issue of censorship being necessary and essential or not has been questioned. Censorship could be rewarding sometimes but in Egypt censorship has exceeded all limits. It exists in all aspects of every citizen’s life, and has therefore become a burden instead of a helpful aspect. Media, Freedom of speech and Election restrictions…

Although people hail from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds, there are still some peculiar traits, behavioral patterns and approach to life that one can spot and that can be attributed to some cultures. When I say this, I do not imply that some culture are the same, rather what I mean to say is that…

A Sarcophagus is stone coffin, which held the bodies, or remaining’s of the royals that have died in Ancient Egypt. Many scholars believed that its limestone feature had the properties to dissolve the body quicker. The Sarcophagus in Ancient Egypt during the 3rd Dynasty was known as the “flesh eater”, hence its description. These boxed…

European mischievousness was typified by the Egyptian exhibition in Paris for Barnum ’ s All World Show in the 2nd half of the 19th century. The show itself was a immense show built to mime antique Egypt architecture, designed down to minuscule item such as soil purposeful rubbed into pigment to do the show expression…

“.. so much energy has been expended by Muslim men and then Muslim women to remove the veil and by others to affirm or restore it ..” (Ahmed 167). This paper explores these efforts in two specific stages: the first and the last thirds of the twentieth century. Through an analysis of some of the…

Mummification Thesis Mummification is a big reason why we have much knowledge on pharaohs and ancient civilization. – Ancient Egyptians believed that when someone died, their soul left their body. The soul would then return and be reunited with the body after it was buried. However, the soul needed to be able to find and…