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Egyptian calendar

The Egyptian calendar, also called the Egyptian civil year, was the fixed 365-day calendar of ancient Egypt, whose months drifted through the seasons and survives as the Coptic calendar.

Egyptian campaigns in Nubia under Sneferu

Military raids by the Fourth Dynasty Egyptian king Sneferu against Nubia, known from the Palermo Stone annals, which record 60 boats, 7,000 captives, and 200,000 livestock taken around 2600 BC.

Egyptian cobra (Naja haje), large non-spitting African elapid of the subgenus Uraeus, ranging Morocco to Tanzania; 3FTx-dominated neurotoxic venom; monospecific antivenom outperforms polyvalent Inoserp-MENA in Morocco.

Egyptian conquest of Darfur

The Egyptian conquest of Darfur was the 1874 overthrow of the independent Keira Sultanate by slave-trader al-Zubayr Rahma Mansur, fighting on behalf of the Khedive of Egypt.

Egyptian conquest of Equatoria and Bahr el Ghazal

The Egyptian conquest of Equatoria and Bahr el Ghazal (فتح الاستوائية) was the extension of Turco-Egyptian rule from Sudan south of Gondokoro from 1869, creating Equatoria province.

Egyptian conquest of Kerma

The Egyptian conquest of Kerma was a series of campaigns by Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty pharaohs against the Kingdom of Kush at Kerma in Upper Nubia, ending with Thutmose III's victory.

Sep 23, 2026

Egyptian Constitution of 1923

The Egyptian Constitution of 1923 (دستور ١٩٢٣) was the fundamental law of the Kingdom of Egypt, promulgated by King Fuad I in 1923 and abolished in 1952.

Egyptian copies of the Egyptian–Hittite peace treaty

The Egyptian copies of the Egyptian–Hittite peace treaty are two hieroglyphic inscriptions at Karnak and the Ramesseum recording the peace accord between Ramesses II and Hattusili III.

Egyptian Crisis (2011–2014)

Egyptian Crisis (2011–2014): the Arab Spring upheaval from the January 25, 2011 uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak, through SCAF rule, Mohamed Morsi's election and July 2013 military ouster, the Rabaa massacre, and al-Sisi's 2014 rise.

Egyptian cuisine

Egyptian cuisine is the cooking tradition of Egypt, a plant-forward Nile Valley cuisine built on fava beans, lentils, bread, and rice, with a history reaching back 5,000 years.

Egyptian cultural dress

Egyptian cultural dress: linen-based pharaonic clothing, the galabeya, Nubian thobe al-das, Sinai tobe, and regional costumes, plus modern shifts to Western dress and the 1970s hijab return.

Egyptian Debt Crisis

The Egyptian Debt Crisis (أزمة الديون المصرية) was Khedive Ismail's 1876 default to European creditors, ending his rule in 1879 and leading to British occupation in 1882.

Oct 22, 2026

Egyptian Earth

Egyptian Earth (Al-Ard, الأرض) is a 1954 novel by the Egyptian writer Abd al-Rahman al-Sharqawi, often called the foremost Arabic example of socialist realism and adapted into a film directed by Youssef Chahine.

Egyptian Electricity Holding Company

The Egyptian Electricity Holding Company (القابضة لكهرباء مصر, EEHC) is Egypt's state-owned holding company for electricity generation, transmission, and distribution, created in 2000 from the Egyptian Electricity Authority.

Egyptian faience

Egyptian faience, also called glazed composition, is a non-clay ceramic of crushed quartz with a soda-rich glaze, first made in the Badarian Culture (c. 5500–4000 BCE) and glazed by efflorescence, cementation, or application.

Oct 22, 2026

Egyptian folk literature

Egyptian folk literature (الأدب الشعبي المصري) is the oral verbal art of the Egyptian people, spanning folk tales, proverbs, songs, and popular epics like the Sirat Bani Hilal.

Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation

The Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) is Egypt's state-owned national oil company, responsible for most oil and gas operations and for managing concession agreements with international investors.

Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC)

The Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) is Egypt's state-owned national oil company, formed in 1962, which supervises concessions with international oil companies and owns Egypt's seven refineries.

Egyptian goose

Egyptian goose (Alopochen aegyptiaca, Nilgans), an African shelduck native to the Nile valley and sub-Saharan Africa, introduced to Europe since the 17th century; invasive in the EU since 2017, Least Concern globally.

Egyptian governor residencies

Egyptian governor residencies, also called Egyptian residencies in Canaan, were administrative centers built by New Kingdom Egypt in Canaan during the 13th and 12th centuries BCE.

Egyptian hieroglyphs

Egyptian hieroglyphs: the formal pictorial script of ancient Egypt, mixing phonograms, logograms, and determinatives; attested from about 3250 BC, deciphered by Champollion in 1822 via the Rosetta Stone and Coptic, last used in 394 CE.

Egyptian language

Egyptian language, ancient language of Egypt, Afro-Asiatic branch; five stages Old, Middle, Late Egyptian, Demotic, Coptic; written in hieroglyphs, hieratic, demotic, Coptic scripts from c. 3200 BCE; Coptic survives liturgically.

Egyptian LNG Terminal

Egyptian LNG is a liquefied natural gas export terminal at Idku on Egypt's Mediterranean coast, with two trains totaling 7.2 million tonnes per year, operating since 2005.

Egyptian Lover

Egyptian Lover (Greg Broussard) is a Los Angeles DJ, rapper, and producer, a pioneer of 1980s West Coast electro-hop. Known for "Egypt, Egypt" (1984), Uncle Jamm's Army, and mastery of the Roland TR-808 drum machine.

Egyptian Mathematical Leather Roll

The Egyptian Mathematical Leather Roll is a Middle Kingdom Egyptian mathematical text on leather, bought in Egypt by Henry Rhind in 1858 and held in the British Museum, preserving 26 unit-fraction equalities written in duplicate.

Egyptian Mau

Egyptian Mau: the only naturally spotted domestic cat breed, named from the Egyptian word for cat. Silver, bronze, and smoke coats, gooseberry green eyes, up to 30 mph; imported to the US by Princess Troubetskoy in 1956, recognized by CFA in 1970 and TICA in 1979.