(ornithology) Neophron percnopterus

In terms of Egyptology.

Relating to Egyptology.

A pigment made from calcium copper tetrasilicate (“CaCuSi₄O₁₀”), the first artificial pigment, a blue, used by Egyptians for over 3 millennia, before dying out during the Roman Empire; one of the few alternates to lapis lazuli during ancient times.

(linguistics, history) The phase of the Egyptian language characterized by a relatively synthetic typology, including Archaic Egyptian, Old Egyptian, Middle Egyptian, Late Middle Egyptian, and Neo-Middle Egyptian, and contrasted against Later Egyptian.

(linguistics, history) The phase of the Egyptian language characterized by a relatively analytic typology, including Medio-Late Egyptian, Late Egyptian, Demotic, and Coptic, and contrasted against Earlier Egyptian.

(linguistics, history) The phase of the Egyptian language characterized by Middle Egyptian sentence structure and orthography but occasional use of Late Egyptian vocabulary and forms.

(linguistics, history) The phase of the Egyptian language characterized by Late Egyptian sentence structure but mostly Middle Egyptian orthography with occasional Middle Egyptian syntactical elements.

(linguistics, history) The Egyptian language as written and spoken during the Early Dynastic Period, before the time of the earliest attested complete sentences.

(linguistics, history) The form of Middle Egyptian archaizingly used as a literary language after the vernacular language had changed into Late Egyptian, and later Demotic and Coptic.