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Ancient Egypt
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The list Ancient Egypt includes
Jonathan Tokeley-Parry, Ancient Egypt, Thinite Confederacy, Egyptian Finger and Toe stalls and Henna.
The list consists of 22 members
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Jonathan Tokeley-Parry
Convicted smugglerOverview: Jonathan Tokeley-Parry is a British restorer and who is noteable for smuggling more than 3000 pieces of Egyptian antiquities out of Egypt by disguising them as reproductions.Nationality: British
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Henna
dye
Overview: Henna is a reddish dye prepared from the dried and powdered leaves of the henna tree. It has been used since at least the ancient Egyptian period as a hair and body dye, notably in the temporary body art ... 0
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The Greatest Pharaohs
1997 American film
Overview: The Greatest Pharaohs is a 1997 American educational documentary film about Ancient Egypt distributed by A&E and narrated by Frank Langella with commentary by experts in the field. It is 200 minutes long ... 0
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Music of Egypt
musical culture of Egypt
Overview: Music has been an integral part of Egyptian culture since antiquity in Egypt. Egyptian music had a significant impact on the development of ancient Greek music, and via the Greeks it was important to early ... 0
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Achaemenid Empire
First Persian empire, founded by Cyrus the Great from c. 550–330 BC
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Ancient Egypt
Egyptian civilization from the 31st century BC to the 1st century BC
Overview: Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa. It was concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River, situated within the contemporary territory of modern-day Egypt. Ancient Egyptian ... 0
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Neo-Assyrian Empire
Historical state in Mesopotamia
Overview: The Neo-Assyrian Empire was the fourth and penultimate stage of ancient Assyrian history. Beginning with the accession of Adad-nirari II in 911 BC, the Neo-Assyrian Empire grew to dominate the ancient ... 0
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International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia
1960–80 relocation project in Egypt and Sudan
Overview: The International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia was the relocation of 22 monuments in Lower Nubia, in Southern Egypt and northern Sudan, between 1960 and 1980. The success of the project, in ... 0
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Assyrian conquest of Egypt
673–663 BCE military campaign
Overview: The Assyrian conquest of Egypt covered a relatively short period of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 673 to 663 BCE. The conquest of Egypt not only placed a land of great cultural prestige under Assyrian rule ... 0
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Egyptian Finger and Toe stalls
Ancient Egyptian jewelry
Overview: Egyptian finger and toe stalls are pieces of gold jewelry used in Ancient Egypt to protect digits during burial. Such stalls were used during the 18th Dynasty of Egypt, as well as other eras, and were ... 0
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Wah-Sut
Archaeological site in Egypt.
Overview: Wah-Sut (Ancient Egyptian: Wah-sut-Khakaure-maa-kheru-em-Abdju, meaning Enduring are the places of Khakaure justified in Abydos) is a town located south of Abydos in Middle Egypt. The name of the town ... 0
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Antirhodos
Former island in the eastern harbor of Alexandria, Egypt
Overview: Antirhodos (sometimes Antirrhodos or Anti Rhodes) was an island in the eastern harbor of Alexandria, Egypt, on which a Ptolemaic Egyptian palace was sited. The island was occupied until the reigns of ... 0
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Giza East Field
Cemetery in Egypt
Overview: The East Field is located to the east of the Great Pyramid of Giza and contains cemetery G 7000. This cemetery was a burial place for some of the family members of Khufu. The cemetery also includes mastabas ... 0
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Uronarti
Archaeological site in Northern State, Egypt
Overview: Uronarti is an island and archaeological site in the Nile just south of the Second Cataract in the north of Sudan. The site features a massive ancient fortress that still stands on its northern end. This ... 0
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Mastaba
Type of tomb in ancient Egypt
Overview: A mastaba (MASS-tə-bə, MAHSS-tah-bah or mahss-TAH-bah), also mastabah or mastabat) is a type of ancient Egyptian tomb in the form of a flat-roofed, rectangular structure with inward sloping sides, con ... 0
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Simsimiyya
Sudanese-Egyptian stringed musical instrument
Overview: The simsimiyya (Arabic: سمسمية, and سنسمية simsimyya/sinsimiyya; pl. simsimiyyāt/sinsimiyyāt) is a box or bowl lyre used in Egypt. Models exist with both circular soundboxes as well as rectangular. In ... 0
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Denkmäler aus Ägypten und Äthiopien
book by Karl Richard Lepsius; scientific documentation of the Prussian expedition of 1842-1845
Overview: Denkmäler aus Ägypten und Äthiopien (literally "Monuments from Egypt and Ethiopia", where "Ethiopia" was then a synonym for Nubia) is a monumental work by Karl Richard Lepsius published in Prussia in ... 0
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Thinite Confederacy
Early Dynastic confederacy in Ancient Egypt (circa -3150)Overview: The Thinite Confederacy is an Egyptological term for a hypothesized tribal confederation in ancient Egypt. It is thought to have preceded the full unification of Upper Egypt . The leaders of the Thinite ... 0
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Sea Peoples
purported historical ethnic group
Overview: The Sea Peoples were a group of tribes hypothesized to have attacked Egypt and other Eastern Mediterranean regions around 1200 BC during the Late Bronze Age. The hypothesis was first proposed by the 1 ... 0
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Mersa Gawasis
Egyptian harbour on the Red Sea and former port city
Overview: Mersa Gawasis (Ancient Egyptian Saww) is a small Egyptian harbour on the Red Sea and a former Egyptian port city. The harbour lies at the mouth of Wadi Gawasis, 2 km south of the mouth of Wadi Gasus. 25 ... 0
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