who is cleopatra? who is mark antony? who is akhenaten?
who built the pyramid of giza? which is the egyptian script? explain the process of mummification. who is amenhotep III? who was spinx? when pyramid was giza constructed? who is amenhotep IV? who is menes? who is khufu? which is the egyptian script? describe egypt.
answer to all my questions.
who built the pyramid of giza? which is the egyptian script? explain the process of mummification. who is amenhotep III? who was spinx? when pyramid was giza constructed? who is amenhotep IV? who is menes? who is khufu? which is the egyptian script? describe egypt.
answer to all my questions.
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1. Cleopatra VII Philopator was Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, and its last active ruler.
2. Marcus Antonius (14 January 83 BC – 1 August 30 BC), commonly known in English as Mark Antony, was a Roman politician and general who played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic from a constitutional republic into the autocratic Roman Empire.
3. Akhenaten, also spelled Echnaton, Akhenaton, was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh reigning c. 1353–1336 or 1351–1334 BC, the tenth ruler of the Eighteenth Dynasty.
4. The largest and most famous of all the pyramids, the Great Pyramid at Giza, was built by Snefru's son, Khufu, known also as Cheops.
5. Egyptian hieroglyphs were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt, used for writing the Egyptian language.
6. Mummification is the process of preserving the body after death by deliberately drying or embalming flesh. This typically involved removing moisture from a deceased body and using chemicals or natural preservatives, such as resin, to desiccate the flesh and organs.
7. Amenhotep III, also known as Amenhotep the Magnificent or Amenhotep the Great, was the ninth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty.
8. A sphinx is a mythical creature with the head of a human, the body of a lion, and the wings of a falcon.
9. All three of Giza's famed pyramids and their elaborate burial complexes were built during a frenetic period of construction, from roughly 2550 to 2490 B.C.
10. Akhenaten, also spelled Echnaton, Akhenaton, was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh reigning c. 1353–1336 or 1351–1334 BC, the tenth ruler of the Eighteenth Dynasty.Before the fifth year of his reign, he was known as Amenhotep IV.
11. Menes, also spelled Mena, Meni, or Min, (flourished c. 2925 bce), legendary first king of unified Egypt, who, according to tradition, joined Upper and Lower Egypt in a single centralized monarchy and established ancient Egypt's 1st dynasty.
12. Khufu or Cheops was an ancient Egyptian monarch who was the second pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty, in the first half of the Old Kingdom period.
13. Egypt, country located in the northeastern corner of Africa. Egypt's heartland, the Nile River valley and delta, was the home of one of the principal civilizations of the ancient Middle East and, like Mesopotamia farther east, was the site of one of the world's earliest urban and literate societies.