Fekri A Hassan wrote in his article “Egypt and the Memory of the World” just how much Egypt really has left it’s lasting effects, sometimes without our knowledge. One of the places he specifically brings up is Egypt’s lasting effects on religion. It started with the Greeks. The Greek pantheon absorbed the figures of Isis, Horus, and Osiris into their own Hellenized view. It even went as far as Isis being assigned control over the entire cosmos as being a mother of gods. Her worship was popular through out much of Meditteranean. Osiris was also still worshipped as Sarapis (Hassan 2010). It is also suggested in his paper that there is relation to iconography of Isis and iconography of the Virgini Mary, and that Horus was also associated with Jesus. Egypt also has a place in Christian and Jewish tradition, as the place where Moses was lived and also is referenced many times in Bible and now as part of the Holy Land (Hassan 2010). The tradition continues on in Islam and their use of the story of Moses, which brings Egypt still forward. What is interesting about this is how many people may not even know the depth that Egyptian religion has become part of their own. In lecture we partially discussed this in that Egypt was viewed through many lenses, from Biblical to modern, and how it effected history or legitimized stories at the time. Throughout history, new religions would take pieces of old to bring them forward and entice people to join. For example, many Christian traditions that we celebrate such as Christmas were taken from pagan traditions, like the winter solstice in this case. The Hellenization of Egypt allowed for pieces of religion to be pulled forward, to legitimize new with old. Hassan brings this up briefly in how cultural and social memory can last through many different shifts (Hassan 2010). I would have to agree. Egypt’s legacy as affected the entire western world. Whether it be blatantly, as films and books that romanticize the past, or in subtleties of religion that no one may have even considered, it has a vast effect on our cultural memory, and most likely will continue to for many years. More research and understanding of ancient culture will allow us to understand more about ourselves, and understand just how intertwined the present is with the past, even a past that extends almost four thousand years.