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Egyptian history
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Egyptian history
Delta
History; Egyptian history
The area of northern Egypt where the Nile River flows into the Mediterranean Sea. It is a triangular area of very fertile land.
Necropolis
History; Egyptian history
Egyptian burial grounds. From the Greek word for "city of the dead" or cemetery.
Mortuary cult
History; Egyptian history
People who provided funerary offerings for nourishment of the deceased.
Mortuary priest
History; Egyptian history
A person who was appointed to bring daily offerings to a tomb. Often called the "servant of the ka".
Mut
History; Egyptian history
The divine mother goddess, the queen of all gods. She is portraied as a woman wearing a vulture headdress, with the double crown(Pshent) of upper and lower Egypt.
Hathor
History; Egyptian history
The goddess of joy, motherhood, and love. Hathor was originally worshipped in the form of a cow, sometimes as a cow with stars on her. Later she is represented as a woman with the head of a cow, and ...
Hieratic
History; Egyptian history
A cursive form of ancient Egyptian writing which lost the pictorial aspect of hieroglyphs.
