ancient Egyptin a sentence
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Pyramids were built during the Old and Middle Kingdoms of Ancient Egypt.
ancient Egypt = Egypt from 3150 BC when Upper and Lower Egypt were united, until 31 BC when Rome conquered Egypt
- Since we were just about to start studying ancient Egypt in history, Mr. Browne thought this was a good choice for a precept.† (source)
- "Alex — Mr. Thomas knows about ancient Egypt," said Laura.† (source)
- Not only did Saunière have a personal passion for relics relating to fertility, goddess cults, Wicca, and the sacred feminine, but during his twenty-year tenure as curator, Saunière had helped the Louvre amass the largest collection of goddess art on earth—labrys axes from the priestesses' oldest Greek shrine in Delphi, gold caducei wands, hundreds of Tjet ankhs resembling small standing angels, sistrum rattles used in ancient Egypt to dispel evil spirits, and an astonishing array of statues depicting Horus being nursed by the goddess Isis.† (source)
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- They were built to play up the connection between the British Empire and the Egyptian Empire.† (source)
- He looked over his shoulder and saw a tall woman with the head and claws of a sleek feline, wearing the robes of ancient Egypt, leap at least twenty feet and land squarely on Nicholas Flamel's back, driving him into the ground.† (source)
- The night was sweet with the dust of autumn leaves that smelled as if the fine sands of ancient Egypt were drifting to dunes beyond the town.† (source)
- The fast food joints along the Strip seem insignificant compared to the new monuments towering over them: recreations of the Eiffel Tower, the Statue of Liberty, and the Sphinx, enormous buildings that evoke Venice, Paris, New York, Tuscany, medieval England, ancient Egypt and Rome, the Middle East, the South Seas.† (source)
- The custom goes back to ancient times, and some female mummies in ancient Egypt have cut genitals.† (source)
- He had his back to a rack of paperback books about oral-genital contacts from ancient Egypt to the present and so on, and the clerk supposed Billy was reading one of these.† (source)
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- She might have stepped out of the histories' ancient Egypt.† (source)
- He might say, for example, that like the pharaoh of ancient Egypt, the prime minister of South Africa was raising an army.† (source)
- In ancient Egypt, I'd read somewhere, schizophrenics were worshiped as gods.† (source)
- The rulers of ancient Egypt used to marry their siblings, you know.† (source)
- Rome versus the Visigoths, Ancient Egypt versus the Hyksos, Aztecs versus the Spaniards.† (source)
- This was the city where Ancient Egypt had died.† (source)
- Mine was an Eye of Horus, which was a popular protection symbol in Ancient Egypt.† (source)
- "When you died in Ancient Egypt, you had to take a journey to the Land of the Dead," I explained.† (source)
- Those five days—the Demon Days—were bad luck in Ancient Egypt.† (source)
- Perhaps the most important connection between Ancient Egypt and the modern world.† (source)
- For the first time I understood just how ancient Egypt was.† (source)
- In ancient Egypt, it was the symbol for Ra—the sun god—and modern astronomy still uses it as the solar symbol.† (source)
- In ancient Egypt, those who perfected the Art had become the great Adepts of history, evolving beyond the masses to become true practitioners of Light.† (source)
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- I mean they aren't from Ancient Egypt.† (source)
- Until last year, I'd spent most of my life traveling around the world with my dad as he went from museum to museum, lecturing on Ancient Egypt.† (source)
- Cleopatra's old capital, you know, where the Egyptian Empire fell apart, so magic tends to get twisted around.† (source)
- It's about seventy feet tall, which would've been really impressive back in Ancient Egypt, but on the Thames, with all the tall buildings around, it looks small and sad.† (source)
- The idea is sounded already in the Coffin Texts of ancient Egypt, where the dead man sings of himself as one with God: I am Atum, I who was alone; I am Re at his first appearance.† (source)
- The inhabitants of ancient Egypt were called mummies.† (source)
- It seemed to me that I had been transported into a country far away from this country, into an age remote from this age, that I stood in ancient Egypt and that I was listening to the speech of some highpriest of that land addressed to the youthful Moses.† (source)
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