(Encyclopedia) Cairo genizaCairo genizakōˈrō gənˈēzə [key], archive of ancient Jewish manuscripts found in the synagogue of Fostat-Cairo, Egypt (built 882). In the 1890s western scholars visited the…
(Encyclopedia) Bruyn, Cornelis deBruyn, Cornelis dekôrnāˈlĭs də [key]Bruyn, Cornelis de broin [key], 1652–c.1726, Dutch portrait painter and traveler. He painted for some years in Italy, where he was…
(Encyclopedia) Carnarvon, George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th earl ofCarnarvon, George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th earl ofkärnärˈvən [key], 1866–1923, English Egyptologist. With…
(Encyclopedia) BenhaBenhabĕnˈhä [key] or BanhaBanhabänˈ– [key], city (1986 pop. 115,701), capital of Qalyubiyah governate, N Egypt, in the Nile River delta. A rail junction and trade center, Benha…
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(Encyclopedia) Cyrus the GreatCyrus the Greatsīˈrəs [key], d. 529 b.c., king of Persia, founder of the greatness of the Achaemenids and of the Persian Empire. According to Herodotus, he was the son…
(Encyclopedia) MemnonMemnonmĕmˈnŏn [key], in Greek mythology, king of Ethiopia, son of Tithonus and Eos. In the Trojan War he fought against the Greeks, and after he had killed Antilochus, he himself…
(Encyclopedia) LeviLevilēˈvī [key], in the Bible. 1 Son of Jacob and Leah and eponymous ancestor of the Levites. His name appears infrequently—at his birth, when he and Simeon massacred the…
(Encyclopedia) magic square, a square divided into parts with letters or numbers inscribed therein that, whether combined vertically, horizontally, or diagonally, form the same sum or the same word.…
(Encyclopedia) ManethoManethomănˈĭthō [key], fl. 300 b.c., Egyptian historian, a priest at Heliopolis, under Ptolemy I and Ptolemy II. His work, covering the history of Egypt from legendary times to…
