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.
1 The crown of Lower Egypt consisted of a cylindrical section with a tall extension at the back and a 'thread' on the front with a curled end.  The Egyptian pharaohs, wore it to symbolize their authority over Lower Egypt and for the desert Red Land on either side of the Nile river basin.