Who was a buried in the serapeum?

sacred bulls

Egyptian priestesses

slaves of the Pharaohs

sacred pharaoh's dogs

The Serapeum was a burial place of the Apis bulls, sacred bulls that were incarnations of Ptah. It was believed that the bulls became immortal after death as Osiris-Apis, a name shortened to Serapis in the Hellenic period.

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In 1822 Jean-François Champollion translated ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs for the first time. What made this possible?

Rosetta stone

Thebes' Karnak temple inscriptions

papyrus Book of the Dead

Dead Sea scrolls

In which country did the Mamluk army exist?

What is the highest mountain in Egypt?

Jabal Sha'ib al-Banat

Mount Sinai

Mokattam

Mount Catherine

What is called "Sacred" burma?