Now if you bear tedious numbers please try this. The Lands of the Sphinx Israel, North Korea and the Papal State, Rome are `unofficially' the Lands of the...
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You may be interested in the following review: Akhenaten History, Fantasy and Ancient Egypt by Dominic Montserrat Review by Marysusan Noll on Nov 27th 2001 ...
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hi, i'm interested in the etymology of the word "Egypt". What does it mean, where does it come from, when it was first used. Any info/pointers? thanks, dimitri...
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katrina
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Dec 21, 2001 3:47 pm
well, i'm not quite sure....all i know is, the egyptian (as in, egyptian language) name for "egypt" was "kemet." i think it meant "black land" or something. i...
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rob perry
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Dec 21, 2001 6:03 pm
Something came to mind what I saw the question about the name of Egypt. It was that it means "change," or changes." As I am currently studying the Hindu...
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katrina
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Dec 22, 2001 5:00 pm
i discovered something else. for the canaanites, the name for egypt was "mizraim." i suppose this was what jacob's sons used to refer to egypt when they went...
Kemet is the old name for Egypt and it does mean the "black land," referring to the land irrigated by the Nile. The name for the desert was "the red land." The...
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Ms. Katrina
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Dec 23, 2001 5:17 pm
hmmmmm..........interesting. what about the "mizraim" name? is it true or was it just a hoax that i read?...
I don't know anything about mizraim. I just posted what was in my dictionary. I knew about Kemet from various books on Egyptology. ... i read?...
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Born 2B Wide
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Dec 23, 2001 9:00 pm
Well... " Hikuptah, a variant of Hat-kaptak" is the distorted form of Hwt Ka Ptah, e.g. Temple of Ptah's Ka-soul - which was the name of Memphis in a time. ...
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stevewhittet
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Dec 24, 2001 3:02 am
I notice that several early kings seem to have a glyph composed of a field with a human head attached at one end. I wonder if this might be an early version ...
so, three words: kemet, mizraim and egypt. it's still not clear to me, though, who used each name and during which period. i mean, what was the original name...
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Born 2B Wide
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Dec 27, 2001 1:22 am
Hi, Dimitri! word: used by period (ta) kemet Egyptians pharaonic times (means: black {e.g. fertile} [land]) ta meri Egyptians pharaonic times (means:...
very interesting all this.. so, "kemet" seems to be the oldest name. one last thing. how old do u think is the word "kemet" ? what's, for instance, the oldest...
Wasn't there a Ta-Mera before there was a Khemet? ~Kara-Teunth ... _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online,...
... (Beloved land? Not Two Lands? I thought that this name referred to Egypt before it was a single kingdom, back when it had a ruler for the south, and one...
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Born 2B Wide
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Dec 27, 2001 9:15 pm
... From: midiostri [mailto:midiostri@...] Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 3:52 PM To: ancient_egypt@yahoogroups.com Subject: [ancient_egypt] Re:...
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Born 2B Wide
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Dec 27, 2001 9:27 pm
... and ... No, ta meri has two elements: ta as land, meri (like in Meritra, Meryt, Meret-seger, etc) as beloved. The Two Lands stood as tawy, because Egyptian...
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From: "O. Afifi" <afifidotcom@...> Hello all Happy New Year 2002 to everyone and inshalla much better next year. May I add to what our friend ynnv (...
... Actually, I said it was *erroneously* related to Egypt. The etymology of the word Gypsy is from Egypt, because Europeans wrongly assumed that they were...
... From: O. Afifi [mailto:afifidotcom@...] Hello I received more than a message replying to my explanation derived from Quraan. Thanx for all. I would...
