Word: aethiopia
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...Germany and the Netherlands. The show, which will continue into next year, features statues, pottery, jewelry and other artifacts that were recovered in excavations dating back to 1842, when Karl Lepsius, a Prussian archaeologist, first surveyed the region known in the Old Testament as Kush, in Greek literature as Aethiopia and by the Romans as Nubia (possibly a corruption of the Egyptian word for gold...
...find Thresky (short for Threskiornis, which supposedly stands for Ibis Aethiopia) there now. For the Lampoon's sacred bird-symbol is reportedly still recuperating from injuries received at the hands of the CRIMSON last Spring. And besides that, the years have been tough on this venerable symbol of recent CRIMSON-Lampoon rivalry...
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