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• History of clothing and textiles
  ...xtile Industries: A Story From Pre-History To The 21st Century]</ref> From ancient times to the present day, methods of textile production have continually ev ==Ancient textiles and clothing==
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• Timeline of clothing and textiles technology
  *c. 5000 BC – Production of [[linen]] cloth in [[Ancient Egypt]], along with other [[bast fiber]]s including [[Juncaceae|rush]], [[Reed (p *600 AD – Oldest samples of cloth printed by [[Woodblock printing]] from Egypt.
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• Terracotta
  ...ta image of [[Isis]] lamenting the loss of [[Osiris]] (Eighteenth Dynasty, Egypt) [[Musée du Louvre]], [[Paris]]]] ...ulpture]] and [[pottery]], as well as [[brick]]s and [[roof shingle]]s. In ancient times, the first clay sculptures were dried (baked) in the sun after being
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• Lime mortar
  ...t largely replaced the [[clay]] and [[gypsum]] mortars common to [[Ancient Egypt]]ian construction.<ref>{{cite book | title = Ancient Egyptian Materials and Industries
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• Building material
  ...used as permanent housing in tropical countries or as summer structures by ancient northern people. ..., some civilizations built entirely with stone such as the [[Pyramids]] in Egypt, the [[Aztec]] pyramids and the remains of the [[Inca]] civilization.
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• Iron
  Iron has been used since ancient times, though not as early as bronze or the other copper related alloys. Ir ...f [[meteor]]ic iron in 3500&nbsp;B.C. or earlier were found in [[Gerzah]], Egypt by G. A. Wainwright.{{sfn|Weeks|1968|p=31}}<!-- Typo on page 31 refers to "
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• Mining
  ===Ancient Egypt=== ...itself."<ref name="Shaw">Shaw, I. (2000). ''The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt''. New York: Oxford University Press, p. 108.</ref> Quarries for [[turqu
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• List of places named after people
  ===Egypt=== *[[Alexandria, Egypt|Alexandria]] &ndash; [[Alexander the Great]]
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• Cannabis (drug)
  ...0.1126/science.34.883.761 | journal = Science (New York, N.Y.)}}</ref> The ancient drug [[soma]], mentioned in the [[Veda]]s, was sometimes associated with ca Cannabis was also known to the [[History of the Assyrian people|ancient Assyrians]], who discovered its psychoactive properties through the [[Aryan
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• History of general anesthesia
  ...me|Romans]], [[Indus Valley Civilization|Indians]], and [[History of China#Ancient era|Chinese]]. Islamic physicians and other Eastern scholars maintained an ...ry]]. [[Ethanol|Alcohol]] is the oldest known [[sedative]]; it was used in ancient [[Mesopotamia]] thousands of years ago.<ref name=Powell1996/>
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• Islam and violence
  ...ry Islam. He cited the case of [[Muhammad Said al-Ashmawy]] being held in Egypt is under house arrest for his own protection; [[Abdel Karim Soroush]] who w ...ntit community - p. 13, John Hunwick 2006</ref><ref name=TIMES-MUMBAI /> [[Egypt]]ian cleric: "The Jews "are enemies not because they occupied Palestine. Th
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• Extraordinary rendition by the United States
  ...national abduction as a last resort, in the absence of other remedies, has ancient precedents. ...orist suspects globally — including access to a small fleet of aircraft. Egypt embraced the idea... 'What was clever was that some of the senior people in
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• Cheese
  ...VIEWS/main/cheese/cheese2/history.asp|title=The History Of Cheese: From An Ancient Nomad’s Horseback To Today’s Luxury Cheese Cart |work=The Nibble|publis ...entral Asia]]. Since animal skins and inflated internal organs have, since ancient times, provided storage vessels for a range of foodstuffs, it is probable t
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• List of vegetable oils
  ...2001/mag4.htm|title=Beauty Secrets of the Ancient Egyptians|publisher=Tour Egypt online magazine|accessdate=2006-07-24}}</ref> ...ssed from the seeds of ''[[Balanites aegyptiaca]]'', was used in ancient [[Egypt]] as the base for [[perfume]]s.<ref name="balanos"/>
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