White or brown rice might be a matter of taste. But people who substitute brown rice for white rice for health reasons may be onto something, a new study from Harvard University implies. Yet doctors warn that there's more to this effect than the nutrition in rice alone.
Menes (c. 3150 BCE) is the legendary first king of Egypt who is thought to have united Upper and Lower Egypt through conquest and founded both the First Dynasty and the great city of Memphis.
The land of Egypt, it government, ruler, and religion all represented a single divine order to the ancient Egyptians. At the top of the order was pharaoh himself, an incarnate god. The priests and the officials of pharaoh constituted the sided of the divine pyramid. All of the other members of Egyptian society made up its base.