IndigoBlue
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The Rosicrucian Society gives lectures at their museums on various topics about Egyptology.
I attended one yesterday with my wife for cultural enrichment, and learned something I never knew.
In ancient Egyptian society, the deserts were called The Red Land, whereas the Nile River Valley and the land of Egypt were called The Black Land. Presumably the black-ness comes from the fertile black earth, and the red-ness from the iron oxide of the desert terrain.
Hence The Red Sea is the sea in the desert.
Next time you are scuba diving at The Red Sea, you might appreciate that tidbit of knowledge.
I attended one yesterday with my wife for cultural enrichment, and learned something I never knew.
In ancient Egyptian society, the deserts were called The Red Land, whereas the Nile River Valley and the land of Egypt were called The Black Land. Presumably the black-ness comes from the fertile black earth, and the red-ness from the iron oxide of the desert terrain.
Hence The Red Sea is the sea in the desert.
Next time you are scuba diving at The Red Sea, you might appreciate that tidbit of knowledge.
