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Cataract

A clouding or loss of transparency of the lens in the eye as a result of tissue breakdown and protein clumping.

Silt

Fine sand, clay, or other material carried by running water and deposited as a sediment, especially in a channel or harbor.

Egyptian life

The ones who live in Egypt and have the religion

Scribe

A person who copies out documents, especially one employed to do this before printing was invented.

Linen

Arments or other household articles such as sheets made, or originally made, of linen.

Dynasty

A line of hereditary rulers of a country.

Papyrus

A material prepared in ancient 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, sandals, and boats.

Hammurabi

18th century b.c. Or earlier, king of Babylonia.

Canopic Jars

A covered urn used in ancient Egyptian burials to hold the entrails from an embalmed body

Ziggurat

(in ancient Mesopotamia) a rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple. Ziggurats are first attested in the late 3rd millennium BC and probably inspired the biblical story of the Tower of Babel

Ramses II

1292–1225 b.c, king of ancient Egypt.

Rosetta Stone

A stone slab, found in 1799 near Rosetta, bearing parallel inscriptions in Greek, Egyptian hieroglyphic, and demotic characters, making possible the decipherment of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.

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