The highly idealized, mythological style of Egyptian art suggests that Egyptian culture as a whole was not concerned with scientific and mathematical truths. ... The beginnings of the Protogeometric period display a distinct interest in mathematical order. ... Artist such as Polyclitius later envisioned human perfection as a series of mathematical proportions. ... This sculpture was constructed using a strict mathematical formula that was believed to represent the perfect male body. ... Roman artists began to use the Greek ideas of detailed anatomy and mathematical proportions to depict the bo...

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Every culture on earth has developed some mathematics. ... Now there is one predominant international mathematics, this mathematics has quite a history. Its" roots can be traced back to ancient Egypt and Babylonia, which then grew rapidly in ancient Greece. Mathematics written in ancient Greek was translated into Arabic. ... Later some of this mathematics was translated into Latin and became the mathematics of Western Europe. ...

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The highly idealized, mythological style of Egyptian art suggests that Egyptian culture as a whole was not concerned with scientific and mathematical truths. ... The beginnings of the Protogeometric period display a distinct interest in mathematical order. ... Artist such as Polyclitius later envisioned human perfection as a series of mathematical proportions. ... This sculpture was constructed using a strict mathematical formula that was believed to represent the perfect male body. ... Roman artists began to use the Greek ideas of detailed anatomy and mathematical proportions to depict the bo...

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1. 60 million years ago, the age of giant reptiles came to an end. Dinosaurs ruled the earth, while mammals were not able to evolve because they could never challenge the dinosaurs. Then, a comet hit the earth and the dinosaurs disappeared. Mammals, including primates, were then able to evolve. Over 5 million years ago, primates walked on all fours. ...

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Egyptian science focused on mathematics and astronomy, but its achievements were far less advanced than those of Mesopotamia. ... Elements of Egyptian medical knowledge were gained by the Greeks, and so passed into later Middle Eastern and European civilizations. ...

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Both of whom were recalled as generous and compassionate rulers, Khufu was portrayed as being a cruel Pharaoh by Herodotus an ancient Greek historian specialist who was conceived in Halicarnassus, Caria and lived in the 5th century BC. ...

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The ancient Egyptians are considered among many to be the civilization upon which much of the western world's views and attitudes are based. From religion, to architecture, and art have been handed down generation to generation and improved along the way. Many of the ancient Egyptian traditions have...

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