The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt Quotes

“the Egyptians may have already been correlating the rising of the dog-star with the beginning of the solar year, even in the early third millennium BC.”
― Ian Shaw, The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt

“This process was also used on beautiful daggers with bifurcated blades, which look ahead to the Old Kingdom forked instruments known as pesesh-kef used in the Opening of the Mouth funerary ceremony.”
― Ian Shaw, The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt