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In Plato's Timaeus and Critias (around 395 BC, 200 years after the visit by the Greek legislator Solon), Sais is the city in which Solon receives the story of Atlantis, its military aggression against Greece and Egypt, its eventual defeat and destruction by gods-punishing catastrophe, from an Egyptian priest. Solon visited Egypt in 590 BC.
Plutarch described the statue of a seated and veiled goddess in the Egyptian city of Sais. [45] [46] He identified the goddess as "Athena, whom [the Egyptians] consider to be Isis." [45] However, Sais was the cult center of the goddess Neith, whom the Greeks compared to their goddess Athena, and could have been the goddess that Plutarch spoke ...
The first use of 3-1-1 for informational services was in Baltimore, Maryland, where the service commenced on 2 October 1996. [2] 3-1-1 is intended to connect callers to a call center that can be the same as the 9-1-1 call center, but with 3-1-1 calls assigned a secondary priority, answered only when no 9-1-1 calls are waiting.
Acculturated by Udjahorresnet, the pharaoh paid homage to the goddess Neith at Sais, not before having driven out many Persian squatters who had settled within the temple; Udjahorresnet himself composed Cambyses' pharaonic titulary, calling him the Horus Smatawy (”He who unifies the Two Lands”) and the King of Upper and Lower Egypt Mesutire ...
The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously Friday to allow the demolition of a century-old building in the Westlake neighborhood that served as a Jewish landmark and later as the heart of ...
Sonchis of Saïs or the Saïte (Ancient Greek: Σῶγχις ὁ Σαΐτης, Sō̂nkhis o Saḯtēs; fl. 594 BC) was an Egyptian priest, who is mentioned in Greek writings for relating the account of Atlantis.
Castle-like building occupied by mural-painting business of Anthony Heinsbergen for more than 50 years; built with bricks from the old Los Angeles City Hall 120: Higgins Building: Higgins Building: September 19, 2023 : 108 West 2nd St. 121
Founded as Temple B’nai Israel of Pasadena in 1921, the community that would become PJTC bought the Spanish-style building on North Altadena Drive just north of East Washington Boulevard in 1941 ...