In Egypt a kind of curriculum of occult sciences was created during the Hellenistic period. To the Greeks living there, many religious ceremonies must have appeared to be magical operations. Then too, the Greeks probably considered to be magic certain manufacturing processes that the Egyptians kept secret

In Egypt a kind of curriculum of occult sciences was created during the Hellenistic period. To the Greeks living there, many religious ceremonies must have appeared to be magical operations. Then too, the Greeks probably considered to be magic certain manufacturing processes that the Egyptians kept secret