Egyptology

ancient Egyptian stele with inscriptions in three writing systems

ancient capital of Inebu-hedj, Egypt

thumb|Howard Carter examines the opened coffin of the Eighteenth Dynasty pharaoh [[Tutankhamun with a local assistant in Luxor, Egypt, 1925]]

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corpus of ancient Egyptian religious texts dating to the Old Kingdom in Old Egyptian, carved onto the subterranean walls and sarcophagi of pyramids at Saqqara

Thinis (Greek: Θίνις Thinis, Θίς This ; Egyptian: Tjenu; ; ) was the capital city of pre-unification Upper Egypt. Thinis remains undiscovered but is well attested by ancient writers, including the classical historian Manetho, who cites it as the centre of the Thinite Confederacy, a tribal confederation whose leader, Menes (or Narmer), united Egypt and was its first pharaoh. Thinis began a steep decline in importance when the capital was relocated to Memphis, which was thought to be the first true and stable capital after the unification of Egypt by Menes. Thinis's location on the border of th

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Buto (, , Butu), Bouto, Butus (, Boutos) or Butosus was a city that the Ancient Egyptians called Per-Wadjet. It was located 95 km east of Alexandria in the Nile Delta of Egypt. What in classical times the Greeks called Buto, stood about midway between the Taly (Bolbitine) and Thermuthiac (Sebennytic) branches of the Nile, a few kilometers north of the east-west Butic River and on the southern shore of the Butic Lake (, Boutikē limnē).

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Horapollo (from Horus Apollo; ) (5th century AD?) is the supposed author of a treatise, titled Hieroglyphica, on Egyptian hieroglyphs, extant in a Greek translation by a Philippus (also dating to 5th century).

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thumb|Remains of the Serapeum of Alexandria thumb|Marble bust of Serapis, Roman copy after a Greek original from the 4th century BC A serapeum is a temple or other religious institution dedicated to the syncretic Greco-Egyptian deity Serapis, who combined aspects of Osiris and Apis in a humanized form that was accepted by the Ptolemaic Greeks of Alexandria. There were several such religious centers, each of which was called a serapeion/serapeum () or poserapi (), coming from an Egyptian name for the temple of Osiris-Apis ().

temple in Alexandria

Archaeological site in southwestern Sinai

supposed ancient Egyptian electrical lighting technology

elaborate set of funerary practices

overview about the decipherment of ancient Egyptian scripts

representation of the sun riding in a boat in Egyptian mythology (ancient Egyptian cultic vessel)

branch of the Egyptian Ministry of Culture

bird-shaped artifact made of sycamore wood

A mammisi (mamisi) is an ancient Egyptian small chapel attached to a larger temple (usually in front of the pylons), built from the Late Period, and associated with the nativity of a god. The word is derived from Coptic – the last phase of the ancient Egyptian language – meaning "birth place". Its usage is attributed to the French egyptologist Jean-François Champollion (1790–1832).

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1460 year calendar cycle of ancient Egypt

1969 Egyptian film directed by Shadi Abdel Salam

religious text of some Latter Day Saint churches

library in Egypt

Burial place of Apis bulls in Saqqara

British non-profit archeological organization

French research institute based in Cairo, Egypt

French science expedition in the Egypt

book by Jean-François Champollion

thumb|upright|Rear of a cartonnage Anubis mask, Ptolemaic dynasty|Ptolemaic era thumb|upright|This mummy of an unknown girl has a cartonnage composed of layers of linen and plaster. The Walters Art Museum. Cartonnage or cartonage is a type of material used in ancient Egyptian funerary masks from the First Intermediate Period to the Roman era. It was made of layers of linen or papyrus covered with plaster. Some of the Fayum mummy portraits are also painted on panels made of cartonnage.

archaeological expedition devoted to Ancient Egypt

transcription system developed by Lepsius for Egyptian hieroglyphs and other African and Asian languages

alternative chronology of the ancient Near East developed by David Rohl

village in Beni Suef Governorate, Egypt

excavation of Egyptian tomb in 1922

theory of the origins of Dynastic Egypt

ancient Egyptian legal document

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Proposed Revision of Ancient Egyptian Chronology

ancient Egyptian And Sudanese Museum Department