Afterlife Quote by Bruce Chatwin

Now when the ancient Egyptians, awestruck and wondering, turned their eyes to the heavens, they concluded that two gods, the sun and the moon,…

— Diodorus Siculus

The Ancient Egyptians considered it good luck to meet a swarm of Bees on the road. What they considered bad luck I couldn't say.

— Will Cuppy

In the imperfect records left of the anatomy of the ancient Egyptians, no trace of any knowledge of the spleen can be ascertained.

— Henry Gray

The Ancient Egyptians were not fools, Carter. They built the pyramids. They created the first great nation state. Their civilization lasted thousands of years.”…

— Rick Riordan

“The reason why the ancient Egyptians chose a period of 10 days for a week instead of 7 is theologically Geometrical. They refused to…

— Ibrahim Ibrahim

The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal.

— Harry Seidler

“The early and relatively sophisticated Egyptians understood that their civilization would be threatened if they bred with the Negroes to their south, so pharaohs…

— Kyle Bristow

“Because the Egyptians had no feeling that events of the moment were transitory, they viewed the present as eternal. The world was static; what…

— Norman F. Cantor

“It was not till the time of the XVIIIth Dynasty, indeed, that the Egyptians ceased to portray their kings as they really were, and…

— Leonard William King

“They did not, however, infect the air as the Sudanese sun dried them up like mummies; all had the hue of gray parchment, and…

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

Egyptians are like camels: they can put up with beatings, humiliation and starvation for a long time but when they rebel they do so…

— Alaa Al Aswany

Unfortunately, the Egyptians weren't the greatest artists in the world.

— Joel Edgerton