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Pbs Learning Media: Amazing Heart Facts
This feature from the NOVA: "Cut to the Heart" highlights facts about the heart, including its size and placement, and will help you to understand the importance of this wondrous organ in our bodies.
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Bio Ed Online: Respiratory System
In the following lessons for k-5 students are introduced to the structures within the human respiratory system.
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Eternal Egypt: Qur'an Box
This wooden Qur'an box with ivory, mother-of-pearl, and ebony inlay is decorated with plant and geometric designs.
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Eternal Egypt: Ivory Jewel Box
This ivory jewel box is a masterpiece of art and craftsmanship. A cursive Hieratic text refers to its contents as "rings for the burial ceremony"
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Eternal Egypt: Round Topped Coffer
Round-topped coffer decorated with Kha and Merit seated at the offering table.
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Eternal Egypt: Tall Wooden Wig Box
The wooden box which once held the wig of Kha's wife Merit is shrine shaped. A funerary offering formula appears on the front for the spirit of Merit. It was found in the tomb of Kha.
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Eternal Egypt: Scale Box With Scales
This box is for keeping a scale and weights. It contains a sliding rule of two levels, carved and divided to contain balances.
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Eternal Egypt: Small Rectangular Coffer
Small rectangular coffer, with flat lid, with the painted name of the deceased, from the tomb of Kha.
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Eternal Egypt: Metal Box of Ibn Al Malatif
This rectangular brass box with silver inlay dates from the Mamluk era. It is decorated with geometric and plant motifs as well as Naskh inscriptions.
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Eternal Egypt: Rectangular Decorated Coffer
Rectangular decorated wooden coffer with a double slanted sliding lid, from the tomb of Kha.
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Eternal Egypt: Rectangular Decorated Coffer
Small coffer with a double slanted lid, ornamented with motifs in yellow, green, white and black, comes from the tomb of Kha. The box was found empty.
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Eternal Egypt: Square Box for Storing Clothes
This wooden box, used to store clothes, is almost square in shape. Both handles are painted black and have the name of the king in cartouches.
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Eternal Egypt: Rectangular Toilet Box of Merit
Rectangular wooden toilet box of Merit, internally divided in compartments, from the tomb of Kha.
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Eternal Egypt: Storage Container for Lady Isis
The rectangular container belonged to Lady Isis. In daily life, boxes were used to store belongings. Some were also used in the afterlife to contain the canopic vases, in which the internal organs of the deceased were stored.
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Eternal Egypt: Small Papyrus Box of Tutankhamun
This unique small box is made of papyrus fiber. The scenes on it suggest it might have been made to keep the objects from the ceremony when King Tutankhamun was crowned.