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mixtecnounA member of a Mesoamerican people who live primarily in southern Mexico.
parchmentsnounMaterial, made from the polished skin of a calf, sheep, goat or other animal, used like paper for writing.
papyrinoun(usually uncountable) A material similar to paper made from the papyrus plant.
incunabulanounEarly printed books.
manuscriptsnounA book, composition or any other document, written by hand (or manually typewritten), not mechanically reproduced.
procopiusnounA male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Procopius of Caesarea, a Byzantine Greek historian of the 6th century CE.
oxyrhynchusnoun(ichthyology) a fish with a pointed snout
altarpiecesnouna work of art suspended above and behind an altar in a church
etruscansnounAn inhabitant of ancient Etruria.
frescosnoun(countable, painting) An artwork made by applying water-based pigment to wet or fresh lime mortar or plaster.
petrarchnounFrancesco Petrarca (1304–1374), Italian scholar and poet.
akkadiannounThe now extinct Semitic language of ancient Mesopotamia, formerly used as an international language of diplomacy.
antiquitynounAncient times; faraway history; former ages.
artefactsnounBritish standard spelling of artifact.
epigraphicnounOf or pertaining to an epigraph or to epigraphy.
stelanoun(archaeology) an obelisk or upright stone pillar, usually as a primitive commemoration or gravestone
septuagintnoun(biblical) An influential Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible produced in Alexandria in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE.
nag hammadi librarynounThe (also known as the Chenoboskion Manuscripts and the Gnostic Gospels) a collection of early Christian and Gnostic texts discovered near the Upper Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi in 1945.
cuneiformnounAn ancient Mesopotamian writing system, adapted within several language families, originating as pictograms in Sumer around the 30th century BC, evolving into more abstract and characteristic wedge shapes formed by a blunt reed stylus on clayen tablets.
hieroglyphsnounAn element (individual sign or glyph) of a hieroglyphic writing system.

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