Sedimentary Geology In Egypt;
Glances On Past And Present
Soliman M. Soliman
Dept. Geology, Fac. Sciences, Ain Shams Univ., Cairo, Egypt. |
Sedimentary Geology in Ancient Egypt:
So glorious past of Egypt...
Some of the Ancient Egyptians must have been people of high intellectual attainments. They
adored the nature of their country, and were bred culturally and scientifically in its
highly respected institutions. Of these, for example, is Eon University (4200 B.C.) which
was then a focal theo-philosophic - scientific minaret for Egyptians and a whole life-hope
for foreign elites and philosophers.
From such institutions graduated eminent Egyptians (with our present day sense of
definition). Theologists. philosophers, administrators, astronomers. engineers, surgeons,
chemists, artists, geologists.. etc. who carried Out well known marvelous achievements.
Dealing with sedimentary geology setting in Ancient Egypt has its reasons and its
limitations. For nonscientific or non-intentional reasons, this has been barely touched by
European scholars. Their flash-backs almost stopped with their neighboring Greek
civilization, but not back enough to see clearly across the "Sea of Egypt" (by
Herodotus), the earlier professorial influence. Strikingly, we have lived on the
intellectual terms of these European teachings. Another reason is the Ancient Egyptians
authentic natural observations and science method.
Only Herodotus statement suffices: 82 "The Egyptians have also discovered more
prognostics than all the rest of mankind besides. Whenever a prodigy lakes place, they
watch and record the result; then if anything similar ever happens again, they expect the
same consequences". Herodotus, transl. by Rawlinson, 1947).
As a result. of the above 2 reasons, the third encompasses our necessity of the inevitable
cognition of what our forefathers had, not just in colorful descriptive terms, but deeper
to the core of their thoughts and theories.
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