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A name of several kinds of water lilies as Nelumbium speciosum used in religious ceremonies anciently in Egypt and to this day in Asia Nelumbium luteum the American lotus and Nymphaeliga Lotus and Nymphaeliga caeligrulea the respectively white flowered and blue flowered lotus of modern Egypt which with Nelumbium speciosum are figured on its ancient monuments...
Osiris
One of the principal divinities of Egypt the brother and husband of Isis He was figured as a mummy wearing the royal cap of Upper Egypt and was symbolized by the sacred bull called Apis Cf Serapis...
Ro setta stone
A stone found at Rosetta in Egypt bearing a trilingual inscription by aid of which with other inscriptions a key was obtained to the hieroglyphics of ancient Egypt...
Barbary
The countries on the north coast of Africa from Egypt to the Atlantic...
Bubale
A large antelope Alcelaphus bubalis of Egypt and the Desert of Sahara supposed by some to be the fallow deer of the Bible...
Cairo
The capital city of Egypt It is the largest city in Africa Population 2000 7010000...
Cambrasine
A kind of linen cloth made in Egypt and so named from its resemblance to cambric...
Canonship
Of or pertaining to Canopus in Egypt as the Canopic vases used in embalming...
Cleopatra
a queen of Egypt b 69 b c d 30 b c...
Coptic Church
The native church of Egypt or church of Alexandria which in general organization and doctrines resembles the Roman Catholic Church except that it holds to the Monophysitic doctrine which was condemned a d 451 by the council of Chalcedon and allows its priests to marry The ldquopope and patriarchrdquo has jurisdiction over the Abyssinian Church Since the 7th century the Coptic Church has been so isolated from modifying influences that in many respects it is the most ancient monument of primitive Christian rites and ceremonies But centuries of subjection to Moslem rule have weakened and degraded it...
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