that "all men agree the Egyptians are the healthiest and most long of life among men; and then for the soul they introduced philosophy's training, a pursuit which has the power, not only to establish laws, but also to investigate the nature of the universe. " He declares that Greek writers traveled to Egypt to seek knowledge. One of them was Pythagoras of Samos who "was first to bring to the Greeks all philosophy," according to Isocrates. Plato states in Phaedrus that the Egyptian Thoth "invented numbers and arithmetic… and, most important of all, letters.” In Plato’s Timaeus, Socrates quotes the ancient Egyptian wise men when the law-giver Solon travels to Egypt to learn: "O Solon, Solon, you Greeks are always children." Aristotle attests to Egypt being the original land of wisdom, as when he states in Politics that "Egyptians are reputed to be the oldest of nations, but they have always had laws and a political system." Notes and references Bibliography Molefi Kete Asante, The Egyptian Philosophers: Ancient African Voices for These Times, From Imhotep to Akhenaton, Chicago, African American Images, 2000. See also African philosophy Book of Thoth Egyptology Isfet (Egyptian mythology) Maat Maxims of Ptahhotep Middle Eastern philosophy Philosophy in Coptic Sebayt Egyptian