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chemo-, chem-, chemico-, chemi-, -chemist, -chemic, -chemical +
(Arabic > Greek > Latin: the art of combining base metals [to make gold]; from Greek, chemia, “Egypt”, supposedly where the art of changing metals into gold existed)
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The Splendor that was EGYPT
By Margaret A. Murray; Hawthorn Books, Inc.; New York; 1963.
"Education", pages 105-109; "Language and Literature", pages 289-294; "Scarabs", pages 326-327.
This entry is located in the following unit: Bibliography of Sources of Information about Professional-Egyptian Scribe Stories (page 1)
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Hellenistic Egypt (s) (proper noun)
The zenith of Greek influence in Egypt from 323 B.C. to about 146 B.C. (or arguably as late as 30 B.C.): Hellenistic Egypt concerns the time of ancient Egyptian history when Greek customs, culture and language blended with the ones of Egypt under the Macedonian Ptolemaic dynasty.
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