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Across
| 1 | | The Sun God (2) |
| 3 | | The top, or capstone of a pyramid (10) |
| 7 | |
Southern land (5) |
| 9 | | An aspect of the sun god Ra (3) |
| 10 | | The picture alphabet used for
writing Egyptian (11) |
| 12 | | An Islamic house or mansion (3) |
| 13 | | An elegant Arabic cursive script
which is the cumulation of Islamic
calligraphy (8) |
| 15 | |
Last Egyptian queen (9) |
| 16 | | festival usually celebrated after
30 years of a king’s rule (3) |
| 18 | | The official seat, center of
authority, jurisdiction, or office
of a bishop (3) |
| 19 | | The Child God (3) |
| 21 | | Tower (4) |
| 23 | | A very early symbol of Egyptian
kingship in the shape of a palace (6) |
| 24 | | From pagan religion, the spirit
that inhabits the body during one's life (2) |
| 26 | |
The plateau (4) |
| 27 | | Goddess of the Firmament (3) |
| 28 | | The Sun God (2) |
| 29 | | God of air and sunlight (3) |
| 30 | |
Tutankhamun's successor (2) |
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Down
| 1 | |
Amun animal (3) |
| 2 | | A council Chamber (2 wds.) (9) |
| 3 | | A curved triangular support that
raises a dome above a square base
that puts the weight on the
corners of the base, braced with
several smaller domes and half
domes (10) |
| 4 | | Common housing such as an
apartment house (3) |
| 5 | | great king's wife (9) |
| 6 | | The niche in the qibla wall of a
mosque indicating the direction of
Mecca (6) |
| 8 | | A filter inserted into the neck of
a drinking vessel to filter out
bugs and debris (5) |
| 11 | | Ram-headed God (6) |
| 12 | | first pyramid builder (6) |
| 14 | | A type of glass and pottery
decoration developed by Islamic
craftsmen involving multiple
firings (10) |
| 15 | |
Hathor animal (3) |
| 17 | | The platform in a mosque where the
Koran is chanted (6) |
| 18 | | A symbol of protection, consisting
of an image of a herdsman’s roll
of papyrus which he used as shelter (2) |
| 20 | | Deity of Infinity and Eternity (3) |
| 21 | | The ancient Egyptians’ phoenix,
which was probably a heron (5) |
| 22 | | God of the Earth (3) |
| 23 | | Partisans who believe that Ali
should have succeeded to the
caliphate and some of his
descendants should have inherited
that right (4) |
| 25 | | Kindly God of the Desert (2) |
| 29 | | The Perceptive Mind (3) |
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