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Culture of ancient Egypt

  • Egyptian hieroglyphsPaintings with symbols on Naqada II pottery from 3500 to 3200 BC show early precursors to the formal script. Clay labels recovered at Abydos in 1998 date…
  • Eye of HorusIn the late Old Kingdom, between 2686 and 2181 BC, scribes wrote the Pyramid Texts. These documents tell a violent story about Horus and Set.