Horrible Histories Magazine ¹15: The Awesome Egyptians – Fabulous Pharaohs
Horrible Histories is a series of illustrated history books. They are designed to get children interested in history by concentrating on the unusual, gory, or unpleasant.Horrible Histories has sold over ten million copies in the UK alone, and sold over 20 million copies worldwide. It has been translated into 31 languages which has gone on sale in 37 countries worldwide.
In this carefully researched study, the author examines Egyptian mathematics, demonstrating that although operations were limited in number, they were remarkably adaptable to a great many applications—solution of problems in direct and inverse proportion, linear equations of the first degree, and arithmetical and geometrical progressions
Every organism ceases to exist without water; as for nations, even in the antiquewritings of Homer, the river and land of Egypt were notionally one and the same being. Linguistically they were distinguished by gender alone: used in the masculine, aigyp tos signified the waters whose annual flooding ensured the fertility of an earth, denoted by aigyptos in the feminine. Deified by Pharaohs, revered by the Jewish and Christian writers who claimed Paradise as its source, so awesome was the Nile that Arabic texts held that when al-nil al-mabruk went up, all other rivers on earth would fall.
