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• Passover
  ...the exemption of the [[Israel]]ites from the slaughter of the firstborn in Egypt ([[https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Exodus#Chapter_.1 ...eration]] from [[slavery]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt Egypt]
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• Great Pyramid of Gizeh
  ...s built as a tomb for [[Fourth dynasty of Egypt|Fourth dynasty]] [[ancient Egypt|Egyptian]] King [[Khufu]] (Cheops in Greek) and constructed over a 20 year ...'' notes "By themselves, of course, none of these modern labels define the ancient purposes of the architecture they describe." p. 8</ref> Queen's Chamber and
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• Papyrus
  ...Egypt] from the pithy stem of a water plant, used in sheets throughout the ancient [[Mediterranean]] world for writing or painting on and also for making rope ...also used throughout the [[Mediterranean]] region and in Kingdom of Kush. Ancient Egyptians are thought to have used papyrus as a [[writing]] material, as we
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• Palestine
  ...ometimes considered to include adjoining territories. The name was used by Ancient Greek writers, and was later used for the Roman province [https://en.wikipe ...Achaemenid_Empire Persians], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greeks Ancient Greeks], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome Romans], [https://en.w
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• Accountability
  ...and money-lending systems that first developed in Ancient Israel, Babylon, Egypt, Greece, and later, Rome. # Walzer, Michael (1994). "The Legal Codes of Ancient Israel". In Ian Shapiro. the Rule of Law. NY: New York University Press. pp
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• Ancient
  [[File:lighterstill.jpg]][[File:Ancient-egypt-map.jpg|right|frame]] '''Ancient''' [[history]] is the [[study]] of the [[written]] [[past]] from the beginn
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• Uroboros
  ...ˈrɒbɔrəs/, from the [[Greek]] οὐροβόρος ὄφις tail-devouring snake) is an [[ancient]] symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail. ...ile first emerging in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt Ancient Egypt], the ''Ouroboros'' has been important in religious and [[mythological]] [[
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• 95:3 Evolution of Moral Concepts
  ....php?title=Paper_78#78:4._THE_ANDITES Andite] [[origin]], there evolved in Egypt more of [[moral]] [[culture]] as a [[purely]] [[human]] [[development]] tha ...also augmented by the periodic arrival of [[teachers]] of [[truth]], in [[ancient]] times from the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_76 s
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• Pyramid
  ...rm < ancient Greek πυραμίδ-, πυραμίς monumental structure built in ancient Egypt and used as a royal tomb, (in geometry) solid figure having the form of suc ...pointed shape, by others as < πυρός wheat, grain, as if a granary. Compare ancient [[Greek]] πυραμίς kind of cake, which does derive < πυρός wheat
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• Tomb
  ...such as the tombs of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt ancient Egypt] * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mausoleum Mausolea] (including ancient pyramids in some countries) – external free-standing [[structures]], abov
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• Epistle
  ...iting]] was common in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt ancient Egypt] as part of the scribal-school writing [[curriculum]]. The letters in the [
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• Letter
  ...t. Historically, letters exist from the [[time]] of ancient India, ancient Egypt and Sumer, through [[Rome]], [[Greek|Greece]] and China, up to the present
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• Embalm
  ...st extent was that of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt ancient Egypt], which [[developed]] the [[process]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mum
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• Seth
  ...nt Egyptian] [[mythology]], Set (also spelled Seth, Sutekh or Seteh) is an ancient god, who was originally the god of the desert, [[Turbulence|Storms]], [[Dar ...should be destroyed, the pillar of stone would remain, both reporting the ancient discoveries, and informing men that a pillar of brick was also erected. Jos
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• Classics
  ...uring the time known as [[classical antiquity]], roughly spanning from the Ancient Greek [[Bronze Age]] in 1000 [[BCE]] to the [[Dark Ages]] circa [[Common Er ...eastern Mediterranean—the ancient [[Persian Empire]] and the [[kingdoms of ancient India]]—are termed [[Orientalists]].
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• Codex
  *1. an ancient [[manuscript]] [[text]] in [[book]] form. ...gradual replacement of the [[scroll]], the dominant form of book in the [[ancient]] world, has been termed the most important advance in the history of the b
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• Doll
  ...the ancient civilizations of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt Egypt], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greece Greece] and [https://en.wik
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• Armageddon
  .../en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Megiddo Har Megiddo]'', lit. ''Mount Megiddo''; Ancient Greek: Ἁρμαγεδών ''Harmagedōn'', Late Latin: ''Armagedōn'') is, ...dia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia]. Megiddo was the location of various ancient battles, including one in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Megi
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• 98:0 The Melchizedek Teachings in the Occident
  ...ey came by way of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_religion Egypt] and were embodied in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Philosophy Occ ...les. In [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_history#Classical_Antiquity ancient times] the [[Jews]] were famed as much for [[military]] [[valor]] as for [[
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• Auspice
  ...ing of Alasia in Cyprus who has need of an 'eagle diviner' to be sent from Egypt. This earlier, indigenous [[practice]] of divining by bird signs, familiar In [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_ancient_Rome ancient Roman religion], the auspices provided divine [[signs]] to be [[interpreted
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