Herodotus was not the only Greek who visited Egypt before the conquest of Macedonia. The strong relations that had arisen since the Sufi era between Egypt and the Greeks encouraged many Greek delegations to Egypt. As for the visit and the reconnaissance and the reception of science, it is said that the Greek philosopher Thales visited Egypt, It is likely that he took the idea that water is one of the three natural elements, and he learned in Egypt the origins of geometry and arithmetic. If there is any doubt that Pythagoras, Heraclitos and Anaxagoras visited Egypt, there is no doubt that Plato visited and supplied them with information, as did Democritos. It is likely that the Greek idea of ​​the human spirit that it is a man with a bird's head was taken from Egypt, but he thinks that the Greeks did not take anything else about Egypt then until the era of the Ptolemies.
The 30-year-old peace treaty between Athens and Sparta lasted only half a year in 445. The flames of the Peloponnesian war broke out in 431, but peace prevailed between the Persians and Athens and Sparta. The Egyptians did not care whether Athens and Sparta were at war or in peace. These two countries remained friends of the Persians. In the middle of the Peloponnesian War, Artaxerxes died in 424, but Egypt remained calm until the end of the fifth century.
An Aramaic document of the late 18th century was found on the island of the two parts of Aswan. It is a complaint by the priests of the Jewish community in the two categories of the Persian leader in Aswan that it allowed the goddess Khenom of Egypt to destroy the synagogue there. The existence of this Jewish community may be due to the late 7th or early 6th century, when many Jews were in Egypt, as we have seen and will see later.

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