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Isis nursing Horus
Ramses II making an offering to Horus
Hathor
Khnum
Thoth
Min
Memphis, Egypt: alabaster sphinx
Bes
Isis and Osiris
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Key People

Akhenaten
Akhenaten
king of Egypt
Ramses II
Ramses II
king of Egypt
Hatshepsut
Hatshepsut
ruler of Egypt
blunted pyramid
Snefru
king of Egypt
Imhotep
Egyptian architect, physician, and statesman
Mariette
Auguste Mariette
French archaeologist
Ramses IV
king of Egypt
Ṣaqqārah: pyramid of Userkaf
Userkaf
king of Egypt
Neuserre
king of Egypt
Belzoni, oil painting by W. Brockedon; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Giovanni Battista Belzoni
Italian archaeologist
King Tut's discoverer
Howard Carter
British archaeologist
Pyramid of Menkaure
George Andrew Reisner
American archaeologist
Henri Frankfort
American archaeologist

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