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    Egypt (redirect from Egypte)
    derived from the Ancient Greek "Aígyptos" ("Αἴγυπτος"), via Middle French "Egypte" and Latin "Aegyptus". It is reflected in early Greek Linear B tablets as...
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    with Johns Hopkins University excavating at the temple of Mut in Luxor (Thebes) presented her findings about the festival that included illustrations of...
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  • l'Égypte, ou, Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée française. Tome 4: Antiquitiés, descriptions...
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    of the Wadi Hillal about 80 kilometres (50 mi) south of Luxor (ancient Thebes). Elkab was called Nekheb in the Egyptian language (Coptic: ⲛ̀ⲭⲁⲃ enkhab...
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    (Theban tomb no. 353), located at the site of Deir el-Bahri, discovered in Thebes, Upper Egypt. The tomb and the ceiling decorations date back to the XVIII...
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    develop in different ways, especially in Memphis, his homeland, but also in Thebes, where the workers of the royal tombs honoured him as patron of craftsmen...
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    speech are to the Sacred Band of Thebes and the Persian Immortals—elite units of, respectively, the city state of Thebes and the Achaemenid Kings of Persia;...
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    the Egyptians. The pharaohs of the Eighteenth Dynasty set up a capital in Thebes and the palatial complex at Avaris was briefly abandoned, but areas such...
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  • sais-je ?, PUF, Paris, 1981. Textes sacrés et textes profanes de l'ancienne Égypte. Tome 1 : Des pharaons et des hommes, préface de Pierre Grimal, Gallimard...
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    publisher (link) Quaegebeur, J. (1991). "Le culte de Boubastis - Bastet en Egypte gréco-romaine". In Delvaux, L.; Warmenbol, E. (eds.). Les divins chat d'Egypte...
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    Luxor Obelisks (category Thebes, Egypt)
    Similarly, Vivant Denon recalls in his 1802 Voyage dans la basse et la Haute Égypte the possibility to bring the obelisks to Paris as a trophy of French conquest...
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    Sites et temples de Haute Égypte, Paris, Éditions Errance, 1991, pp. 27-47. See, for example, issue 22 of the journal Egypte, Afrique et Orient (September...
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    the Fourth Cataract of the Nile, according to a contemporary stela from Thebes (Karnak), which dates to Year 3 of this king's name and refers to a heavy...
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    Smendes II was a High Priest of Amun at Thebes in Ancient Egypt. He briefly governed from around 992 to 990 BC. The name Smendes is a hellenization of...
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    Smendes III was a High Priest of Amun at Thebes during the reign of pharaoh Takelot I of the 22nd Dynasty. The name Smendes is a hellenization of the Egyptian...
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    became an associate researcher at the French Archaeological Mission of Thebes West (MAFTO) in 2005. Marshall was born on 29 November 1980 in Toulouse...
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    (1962). Drioton, E; Vandier, J – Les Peuples de l'Orient Méditerranéen II L' Egypte. Paris: Presses universitaires de France. pp. 524, 537–538. Assmann, Jan...
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  • war between Ptolemy VIII and his sister Cleopatra II, Harsiesi captured Thebes in the summer of 131 BC and likely assumed pharaonic titles, although only...
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  • fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies for his work in Thebes, Egypt. Between the late 1990s and early 2000s, Lorton translated a number...
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    Montségur: Égypte Afrique et Orient. ISSN 1276-9223. Husson, Geneviève; Valbelle, Dominique (1992). L'État et les institutions en Égypte des premiers...
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    Nomes under the rule of the Eleventh Dynasty ended with the victory of Thebes and the decline of Asyut's importance. Lycopolis has no remarkable ruins...
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    Monuments divers recueillis en Egypte et en Nubie. LTR-Verlag. ISBN 3887060636 Mariette, Auguste. 1999. Voyage dans la Haute-Egypte: Compris entre Le Caire et...
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    dédiées à Dimitri Meeks par ses collègues et amis. Montpellier 2009 (Cahiers Égypte Nilotique et Méditerranéenne. 2. ISSN 2102-6637), S. 241-251. Labib Habachi...
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    named God's Wife of Amun, the high-priest of Amun, Ramessesnakht, turned Thebes into Egypt's religious capital and a second center of power on par with...
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  • Luigi Vassalli who worked for Auguste Mariette in Dra' Abu el-Naga' at Thebes. Gaston Maspero published the tomb group in 1892. The burial contained the...
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    by C. Pickering Clarke and on "The Land of Goshen", "Cairo", "Memphis", "Thebes", and "Edfû and Philae" by Stanley Lane-Poole. It included steel engravings...
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    XXIe dynastie. Analyse juridique du rapport d'Ounamon », in Le commerce en Egypte ancienne, éd. par N. Grimal et B. Menu (BdE 121), Le Caire, p. 105-126 at...
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    éd. Fayard, Paris, 1995 (ISBN 2-213-59280-2) Histoire de la médecine en Egypte ancienne, Paris, 2013– (http://medecineegypte.canalblog.com/) Richard-Alain...
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    territory under his authority – and noticeably, he is completely unrecorded in Thebes.: 103  Furthermore, it looks that during Shoshenq's reign his lordship above...
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    |journal= (help) Lalouette, Textes sacrés et textes profanes de l'Ancienne Égypte (Vol II), pp. 175–177. Herodotus, The Histories (Vol II), § 112. Petrie...
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