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  2. Pectoral (Ancient Egypt) - Wikipedia

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    Hieroglyphs: Ankh, Huh (god)-(=millions), Shen ring, scarab, Ra, Water Ripple, Sun-rising hieroglyph, uraeus. The pectorals of ancient Egypt were a form of jewelry, often in the form of a brooch. They are often also amulets, and may be so described. They were mostly worn by richer people and the pharaoh.

  3. Scarab (artifact) - Wikipedia

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    Once carved, they would typically be glazed blue or green and then fired. The most common stone used for scarabs was a form of steatite, a soft stone that becomes hard when fired (forming enstatite), or porcelain. [7] In contrast, hardstone scarabs most commonly were composed of green jasper, amethyst and carnelian. Ancient Egyptian amethyst scarab

  4. Lotiform vessels (Metropolitan Museum of Art) - Wikipedia

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    Blue-green, the most popular color used on the earthenware, was achieved through the use of a quartz and calcite lime-based glaze. [4] Egyptian potters crafted relief vases, chalices, and bowls. Many items depicted reeds, lotuses, rivers, aquatic animals, and people, likely due to the glaze's blue-green coloration being associated with water.

  5. Mabinogi (video game) - Wikipedia

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    Mabinogi (Korean: 마비노기) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game released by Nexon, and developed by devCAT studio. The name of the game is taken from the Welsh word Mabinogi , a Welsh anthology of legend, and the settings for the game are loosely based on Welsh mythology .

  6. List of Egyptian inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

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    Diversion dam — The first Diversion dam is Sadd el-Kafara Dam built in Egypt around 2700 B.C. [19]; Noria — Norias appeared in Egypt in the 4th Century B.C. [20]; Beekeeping — domesticated Beekeeping was first recorded in ancient Egypt around 2600 B.C. [21] [22] as well as the first use of smoke while extracting the honey from bee nests.

  7. Shen ring - Wikipedia

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    In ancient Egypt, a shen ring was a circle with a line tangent to it, represented in hieroglyphs as a stylised loop of a rope, bound to a stick. The tool used by builders and architects. The tool used by builders and architects.

  8. List of mythological objects - Wikipedia

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    Ring of Mudarra, the ring that Gonzalo Gustioz breaks in two pieces to so he can later on recognize the son with which his lover is pregnant. When that son, Mudarra, joins the two halves, it again becomes a complete ring and Gonzalo Gustioz is healed of his blindness in the epic poem Cantar de los Siete Infantes de Lara . [ 18 ] (

  9. British Museum Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan

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    List of the kings of Egypt from the Temple of Ramesses II (1250 BC) Third Intermediate Period (1069–664 BC) Statue of the Nile god Hapy, Karnak (c.900 BC) Mummy case and coffin of Nesperennub, Thebes (c.800 BC) Shabaka Stone from Memphis, Egypt, 25th Dynasty (around 700 BC) Statue of Amun in the form of a ram protecting King Taharqa (683 BC)