#The ibises are a group of long-legged wading birds, that inhabit wetlands, forests, and plains. The African sacred ibis was an object of religious veneration in ancient Egypt, particularly associated with the deity Djehuty or otherwise commonly referred to in Greek as Thoth. He is responsible for writing, mathematics, measurement and time as well as the moon and magic. In artworks of the Late Period of Ancient Egypt, Thoth is popularly depicted as an ibis-headed man in the act of writing. The symbolism was perhaps based on the habits as an inquisitive wading bird with a curving beak somewhat like a Crescent moon. Hundreds of thousands of mummified Ibis have been discovered at Sakkara, near Memphis the ancient capital of Egypt.