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The article focuses on how and why full sibling marriage became morally accepted to Egyptians. The author cites examples of brother-sister marriages such as the marriage of Ptolemy Keraunos to his half-sister Arsinoe. It says that motivation to sibling marriage was shared by families from social and economic situations in northern Egypt. It notes that because it was unknown for daughters to stay unmarried, brother-sister marriage was their only means to continue in the parental household.

Explains the contexts of writings on Manicheaism in the Roman Empire's outpost in Egypt. Manuscripts sourced from the Manichaean Library from the extinct city of Medinet Madi; Codices resembling the tale of the `One Thousand and One Nights'.

Discusses the criteria used by the administrators of the Roman Empire for paying wages to quarry workers at the Mons Claudianus site in Egypt. Classification of pay rates according to workers' skills and social status; Formula used in calculating the wages.