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Ancient Egyptian Crossword Puzzle 12/19/2005
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Across
1 Hathor animal (3)
2 God of chaos and confusion (3)
3 An administrative subdivision of ancient Egypt (4)
5 Tutankhamun's successor (2)
6 A monolithic tapered shaft that symbolizes the primordial mound upon the rays of the sun shone first (7)
7 God of the Spoken Word (2)
8 Greeter of the Dead (5)
10 An Arabic word for a holy man or saint from any religion (3)
11 Ancient southern border city (5)
13 An Islamic house or mansion (3)
15 A house, or the self contained apartments into which Ummayed mansions and Abbasid palaces were divided (4)
16 God of the Nile River (4)
17 Kindly God of the Desert (2)
18 Deity of Darkness, Obscurity and Night (3)
Down
1 Modern capital (5)
2 The official seat, center of authority, jurisdiction, or office of a bishop (3)
3 The main area of a church, usually flanked by aisles (4)
4 A hospital, usually attached to a mosque (8)
5 A hieroglyphic sign for life similar to a cross (4)
8 mother of all the gods; mistress of the sky (4)
9 A judge in Islamic law (4)
12 Goddess of War (5)
14 The Sun God (2)
16 God of Magic and Medicine (4)


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