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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Rosetta Stone

For Students 9th - 10th
In 1799, the Rosetta Stone was found and gave the first key to the reading of hieroglyphics. On this stone the same inscription was given in three different sets of characters, -the hieroglyphics, the demotic text (a briefer and more...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Rosetta Stone

For Students 9th - 10th
In 1799, the Rosetta Stone was found and gave the first key to the reading of hieroglyphics. On this stone the same inscription was given in three different sets of characters, -the hieroglyphics, the demotic text (a briefer and more...
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Alien Travel Guide: Egyptian Chanting and Dancing

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site from the Alien Travel Guide provides information on the different customs of Egyptian Theatre. There is also a hieroglyphic of Egyptians dancing. Set up as a slide show, user may also click through a variety of other theatre...
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Etc: Maps Etc: The Pyramids and the Lake of Inundations, About 2100 Bc

For Students 9th - 10th
A detail map of the portion of the Nile River near Memphis and Heracleopolis with its numerous pyramids and the Lake of Inundations during the twelfth dynasty, about 2100 BC. The map shows important historical cities and sites of the...
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Eternal Egypt: Statue of a Man

For Students 9th - 10th
The statue represents a man in a very special seated posture. There are a few hieroglyphic signs on the base beside the foot of the statue.
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Eternal Egypt: Ankh Amulet

For Students 9th - 10th
This blue faience amulet represents the hieroglyphic sign ankh, which means "life." It was depicted on tomb and temple walls with gods holding it in their hands or close to the noses of kings and other deceased people to give them the...
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Eternal Egypt: Wooden Seal

For Students 9th - 10th
This wooden seal has hieroglyphic inscriptions at the top.
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Eternal Egypt: Magical Statuette of Yuya

For Students 9th - 10th
The figure is inscribed with two vertical lines of hieroglyphic text from spell number 151 of the Book of the Dead. The statuette is made of cedar wood and is completely enveloped in a wrapping like a mummy. The figure wears a striped...
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Eternal Egypt: Naos of Nakht

For Students 9th - 10th
A naos, or shrine has a beautiful facade decorated with bright colors. The doorframe is adorned all round with hieroglyphic inscriptions and a bull. The roof is decorated by an inscription stating that Nakht was "venerated by the god...
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Eternal Egypt: Stela of Khufu

For Students 9th - 10th
A stela of grey granite decorated with hieroglyphic signs and the name of King Khufu inscribed in the royal cartouche. This is considered to be one of the rare examples of a cartouche belonging to this king.
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Eternal Egypt: Statue of Ptah Nefer Her

For Students 9th - 10th
A statue representing an important dignitary of the Fifth Dynasty, wearing a long wig that hangs to his shoulders and partly hides his ears; a collar and a short kilt inscribed with his name and his titles. He is seated on a backless...
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Eternal Egypt: Stela of Nesptah

For Students 9th - 10th
A winged sun disk dominates the rounded top of this stela. The hieroglyphic text on the lower part of the stela honors the dedicator.
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Eternal Egypt: Block Statue of Khnum Ib Re

For Students 9th - 10th
This statue is an idealized representation of Khnum-Ib-Re. A hieroglyphic text appeals to the living to recite an offering formula for his sake.
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Eternal Egypt: Standing Statue of Inty Shedu

For Students 9th - 10th
The statue depicts Inty Shedu standing, wearing a short wig painted black, a broad blue and white collar, and a short kilt. Hieroglyphic signs on the base give his names and titles.
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Eternal Egypt: Stela of Kha Em Maat

For Students 9th - 10th
The stela of Kha-em-maat has a rounded top and is divided into four registers. The first register is decorated with the winged sun disc for the protection of the owner of the stela. Another register shows an offering scene to the cow...
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Eternal Egypt: Lintel of Senefru Nefer

For Students 9th - 10th
This lintel, a stone or beam above a door, was taken from the door of Senefru-Nefer. He sits on a chair facing hieroglyphics that give an offering formula, the name of King Djedkare, and the name and titles of Osiris.
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Eternal Egypt: Replica of Rosetta Stone

For Students 9th - 10th
The Rosetta stone is inscribed with a decree issued at Memphis and dated 196 BC., on the anniversary of the coronation of Ptolemy the Fifth "Epiphanes". It is written in hieroglyphics, demotic, and Greek.
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Eternal Egypt: Alabaster Offering Table

For Students 9th - 10th
Most offering tables were cut in a rectangular shape, but this one is circular. The lower part of the table is carved with the traditional Hetep hieroglyphic sign, which means "offering." The upper surface is carved with vessels and...
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Eternal Egypt: Stela of Excommunication

For Students 9th - 10th
This stela, commemorating an Ethiopian king, has offering scenes and hieroglyphic text that tell a very strange tale.
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Eternal Egypt: Mummiform Shawabti of Kha

For Students 9th - 10th
Mummiform shawabti of Kha with seven hieroglyphic lines, from his tomb.
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Eternal Egypt: Outer Sarcophagus of Thuya

For Students 9th - 10th
The outer sarcophagus of Thuya is inscribed with a prayer to Nut and chapters from the Book of the Dead in hieroglyphic text. Some deities are represented.
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Eternal Egypt: Gilt Fan of King Tutankhamun

For Students 9th - 10th
This gilt flabellum, or fan, of King Tutankhamun is decorated with scenes of the king hunting ostriches and ducks. It is also ornamented with hieroglyphic texts.
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Eternal Egypt: Stela of Ptolemy the Eleventh

For Students 9th - 10th
This three-part stela depicts Ptolemy the Eleventh and is inscribed with hieroglyphic and Latin text.
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Eternal Egypt: Lintel of Amenhotep the Second

For Students 9th - 10th
The lintel, a horizontal beam or stone above a door, is dominated by a figure of Horus of Behdet. Two hieroglyphic lines give the names and titles of Amenhotep the Second.

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