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The Egypt Game (1967) is a Newbery Honor-winning novel by Zilpha Keatley Snyder. Set in a small college town in California , the novel follows the creation of a sustained imaginative game by a group of six children.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder (May 11, 1927 – October 7, 2014) was an American author of books for children and young adults. Three of Snyder's works were named Newbery Honor books: The Egypt Game, The Headless Cupid and The Witches of Worm. She was most famous for writing adventure stories and fantasies.
Senet or senat (Ancient Egyptian: ππππ , romanized: znt, lit. 'passing'; cf. Coptic β²₯β²β²β² /sinΙ/, 'passing, afternoon') is a board game from ancient Egypt that consists of ten or more pawns on a 30-square playing board. [1] The earliest representation of senet is dated to c. 2620 BCE from the Mastaba of Hesy-Re, [2] while ...
The Sands of Egypt. Scarab of Ra. Scarabaeus (video game) Screamer 2. Seal of the Pharaoh. Secret Agent Barbie. Secret Files 3. The Secret World. Secrets of the Luxor.
The game is set during the First Dynasty of Egypt. Chariots of War: 2003: 3100 – 1200 BC: The game is set in ancient Near East. Builders of Egypt: 2021: 3100 – 30 BC: The game is set in Nile Valley, during the foundation of Old Kingdom of Egypt and the annexation of Egypt by the Roman Empire. Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile: 2004: ...
First edition (publ. Delacorte) The Gypsy Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder is a 1997 sequel to the Newbery Honor book The Egypt Game. All of the main characters return in a new adventure. This book was followed by a 1998 guide, The Gypsy Game Teacher's Guide.
Set and Typhon also had in common that both were sons of deities representing the Earth (Gaia and Geb) who attacked the principal deities (Osiris for Set, Zeus for Typhon). [citation needed] Nevertheless, throughout this period, in some outlying regions of Egypt, Set was still regarded as the heroic chief deity. [citation needed]
Evidence of the game of Mehen is found from the Predynastic period dating from approximately 3000 BC and continues until the end of the Old Kingdom, around 2300 BC. [2] Aside from physical boards, which mostly date to the Predynastic and Archaic periods, a Mehen board also appears in a picture in the tomb of Hesy-Ra, and its name first appears ...