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  • Saqqara Tablet

    Saqqara Tablet

    The Saqqara Tablet, also known as the Saqqara King List or the Saqqara Table, now in the Egyptian Museum, is an ancient stone engraving surviving from the Ramesside Period of Egypt which features a

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  • Wild Fields

    Wild Fields

    The Wild Fields is a historical term used in the Polish–Lithuanian documents of the 16th to 18th centuries to refer to the Pontic steppe in the territory of present-day Eastern and Southern Ukraine

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  • Menkauhor Kaiu

    Menkauhor Kaiu

    Menkauhor Kaiu (also known as Ikauhor and in Greek as Mencherês, Μεγχερῆς; died c. 2414 BC) was an Ancient Egyptian king of the Old Kingdom period. He was the seventh ruler of the Fifth Dynasty at

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  • Jōdo Shinshū

    Jōdo Shinshū

    Jōdo Shinshū(浄土真宗 , "The True Essence of the Pure Land Teaching" ) , also known as Shin Buddhism or True Pure Land Buddhism, is a school of Pure Land Buddhism founded by the former Tendai Japanese

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  • French citizen

    French citizen

    French nationality law is historically based on the principles of jus soli (Latin for "right of soil") and jus sanguinis, (Latin for "right of blood") according to Ernest Renan's definition, in opp

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  • Djedkare Isesi

    Djedkare Isesi

    Djedkare Isesi (known in Greek as Tancheres; died c. 2375 BC) was a king, the eighth and penultimate ruler of the Fifth Dynasty of Egypt in the late 25th century to mid-24th century BC, during the

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  • 6th Dynasty

    6th Dynasty

    The Sixth Dynasty of ancient Egypt (notated Dynasty VI), along with the Third, Fourth and Fifth Dynasty, constitutes the Old Kingdom of Dynastic Egypt.Sixth Dynasty of Egyptc. 2345 BCE –c. 2181 BCE

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  • Cyril Holland

    Cyril Holland

    Cyril Holland (né Wilde ; 5 June 1885 – 9 May 1915) was the older of the two sons of Oscar Wilde and Constance Lloyd and brother to Vyvyan Holland.Cyril HollandCyril Wilde with his mother Constance

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  • Dakhla Oasis

    Dakhla Oasis

    Dakhla Oasis or Dakhleh Oasis (Egyptian Arabic: الواحات الداخلة ‎ El Waḥat el Daḵla , pronounced [elwæ'ħæ:t edˈdæ:xlæ] , "the inner oases"), is one of the seven oases of Egypt's Western Desert. Dak

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  • Farafra depression

    Farafra depression

    The Farafra depression (Arabic: واحة الفرافرة ‎, pronounced [elfɑˈɾɑfɾɑ] ) is a 980 km2 (380 sq mi) geological depression, the second biggest by size in Western Egypt and the smallest by population

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