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Born February 1, 1988 • London • England
Died April 18, 1985 (aged -3) • England
Subjects Of Study Egypt • prehistoric age

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Richard Lepsius.
Richard Lepsius
German Egyptologist
Zahi Hawass and Barack Obama
Zahi Hawass
Egyptian archaeologist and official
Al-Lahun: pyramid of Sesostris II
Sesostris II
king of Egypt
Amenemhet III
Amenemhet III
king of Egypt
Sir Flinders Petrie, detail of an oil painting by George Frederic Watts, 1900; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Sir Flinders Petrie
British archaeologist
Lord Allenby, portrait by Eric Henri Kennington; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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Amyrtaeus of Sais
king of Egypt
Yasser Arafat
Yasser Arafat
president of Palestinian Authority
Sculpted head of Akhenaten, ancient Egyptian pharaoh, with elongated facial features and a tall, ornate headdress, displayed at the Alexandria National Museum.
Akhenaten
king of Egypt
Stone relief carving of Queen Cleopatra in profile holding a scepter and ankh, with hieroglyphic inscriptions, on the wall of the Temple of Horus at Edfu, Egypt.
Cleopatra
queen of Egypt
Ramses II
Ramses II
king of Egypt
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in a suit and gold tie, speaking at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City.
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
president of Egypt
Herodotus, detail of a Roman herm probably copied from a Greek original of the first half of the 4th century bce; in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples.
Herodotus
Greek historian
Map showing the extent of the Ancient Egyptian Empire during the New Kingdom period of Thutmose III, highlighted in orange, covering Egypt, the Nile River valley, Sinai, and stretching northeast through Palestine, Phoenicia, and Syria. The map also marks the Fertile Crescent and neighboring regions such as Assyria and Babylonia in pink, with key cities and geographic features labeled.
Thutmose III
king of Egypt
Coin depicting Ptolemy I Soter
Ptolemy I Soter
Macedonian king of Egypt
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Gamal Abdel Nasser
president of Egypt
Hosni Mubarak
Hosni Mubarak
president of Egypt
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Arsinoe II
queen of Thrace, Macedonia and Egypt
Saad Zaghloul
Saad Zaghloul
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Darius the Great
Darius I
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