Across 1. A concave bracket around the summits of walls or gates (2wds.) 5. The cat goddess. 7. The official seat, center of authority, jurisdiction, or office of a bishop 9. God of Thunder 11. Defender of the Sun Boat 13. A dome or domed tomb 14. A sculptural relief that projects slightly from the background (2 wds.) 16. 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 18. great battle of great egyptian king 20. Kindly God of the Desert 21. The King of the Gods 22. God of air and sunlight 23. The top, or capstone of a pyramid 25. The Orthodox body of the Islamic faith 27. Grandmother of the Gods 28. An Eye of Re 31. A canon of kings 32. Festival usually celebrated after 30 years of a kings rule 34. First pyramid builder 36. She was the protector and guardian of the Valley of the Kings. 39. A horizontal supporting projection that crowns the walls of a building 41. With certainty, the earliest known site of Neolithic culture of the Nile Valley 43. God of Fertility 44. A gate 45. The God who Joined the Ka to the Body 46. Deity of Darkness, Obscurity and Night 47. Guardian of the Borders 48. Goddess of Weaving 50. A caravan resthouse built of storage rooms for trade goods around a courtyard for the animals 53. God of the Moon 55. The Astral God 56. Goddess of the Inundation 57. A public or private bath 60. A collection of spells originally written on papyrus and buried with a mummy (4 wds.) 62. The Sun God 63. God of the Spoken Word 64. Goddess of the Firmament 65. Lady of the Mansion 67. The Bird of Creation 68. The Lord of the Massacre 69. The Perceptive Mind 70. Modern popular Red Sea coast beach town 71. The Sun God
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Down 2. Eater of the Dead; The Devourer. 3. Northern Aqaba beach resort 4. A leader of Islam, the title literally means the successor to Mohammed 5. From ancient Egyptian myth, the hill which was the first land to rise from the waters 6. Markets that are set up in the open air, or small shops or vendors that are along a specific street 8. Aswan's main island 10. According to religious legend (not ancient Egyptian) these are spirits created 2,000 years before Adam that can be either good or evil and can assume the form of animals, insects or humans 11. A large block of stone 12. Stars or constellations that rose once every ten days and by which the ancient Egyptians used to tell time 15. Place of worship 17. A screen or wall with icons which separated the Heikal (sanctuary) from the nave in Coptic churches 19. An Arabic word for a holy man or saint from any religion 21. 18th dynasty founder 24. Interlaced wooden screen work 26. Queen of the Gods 29. Macadonian dynasty 30. A spirit that inhabits the body during life and may leave it in death, but requires the continued existence of the body for its survival 31. The Good Sister 33. A tomb 35. A main reception hall in an Egyptian house in which the central section is set off with a high roof 36. The Christian doctrine that the human and divine natures of Christ are absorbed into one nature, the divine 37. Amun animal 38. Common housing such as an apartment house 39. A symbolic tomb, honoring the dead but not containing the body 40. Cleanser of Re, Personification of the East 42. The platform in a mosque where the Koran is chanted 44. Protector of Childbirth 47. Lioness-goddess 'she who is powerful' 49. God of the Sea 51. Warrior Goddess of Canaan 52. Scorpion Goddess 54. A symbol of protection, consisting of an image of a herdsmans roll of papyrus which he used as shelter 58. An aspect of the sun god Ra 59. Tutankhamun's successor 61. Sufi litany or prayer service 64. One God of Chaos and Water 66. Deity of Infinity and Eternity 67. From pagan religion, the spirit that inhabits the body during one's life
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