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| The later life of a person. |
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| designating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particularly that of the ancient Egyptians, in which many of the symbols are conventionalized, recognizable pictures of the things represented. |
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| of, belonging to, or constituting a hereditary class that has special social or political status in a country or state; of or pertaining to the aristocracy. |
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| a tapering, four-sided shaft of stone, usually monolithic and having a pyramidal apex. |
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| an ancient document, manuscript, or scroll written on this material. |
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| a title of an ancient Egyptian king. |
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| pertaining to, characterized by, or adhering to polytheism, the doctrine that there is more than one god or many gods: |
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| (in ancient Egypt and pre-Columbian Central America) a quadrilateral masonry mass, stepped and sharply sloping, used as a tomb or a platform for a temple. |
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| a stone slab, found in 1799 near Rosetta, bearing parallel inscriptions in Greek, Egyptian hieroglyphic, and demotic characters, making possible the decipherment of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. |
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| a figure of an imaginary creature having the head of a man or an animal and the body of a lion. |
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| a form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler, the God's or deity's laws being interpreted by the ecclesiastical authorities. |
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