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.
chancellor to the pharaoh, priest of Ra and architect. Bronze, Ptolemaic Egypt (332-30 BC). Image is released under a Creative Commons License. Imhotep (whose name means He comes in peace) was the first great architect of the Old Kingdom in Egypt and was responsible for building the pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara. He lived about 2700 BC.