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Canopus

a port in ancient Egypt east of Alexandria where granite monuments have been found inscribed with the name of Rameses II and written in languages similar to those of the Rosetta stone
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Canopus

(kă-noh -pŭs) (α Car) A conspicuous and luminous white giant that is the brightest star in the constellation Carina and the third-brightest star in the sky after the Sun and Sirius. mv : –0.72; Mv : –2.5; spectral type: A9 II; distance: 23 pc.
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Canopus

[kə′nō·pəs]
(astronomy)
A star that is 180 light-years from the sun; spectral classification F0Ia. Also known as α Carinae.
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Outdoors in California, Kiebert's China Rocks, their pierced, twisted and tormented columns share an agony with her canopic Urns in Maryland.
Eight Spanish coal miners are staging a protest underground as part of nationwide strike action by unions opposed to cuts in government subsidies to the sector (AP Photo/Juan Manuel Serrano) USA A canopic coffinette is displayed during a preview of a King Tut exhibit at Seattle Center.
My students begin to discover containing structures everywhere, even the canopic jars for the organs.
Central to the displays are the nested coffins and mummy of Djeddjehutyiuefankh; funerary models; and canopic jars, shown alongside a variety of co(fin lids.
Foehn gusts carry Sahara sand to the traffic-choked streets of Egypt as they did when priests and potentates first walked Alexandria's Canopic Way.
The mouth of the Canopic branch of the Nile was one of the two main arteries of communications through which Egypt encountered various peoples of the Mediterranean.
There are also some beautifully carved canopic jars, made to house the organs removed during mummification.
The organs were then placed in vessels called canopic jars.
Objects included staves headrests stone vessels canopic jars and wooden models which "were masterworks of Egyptian art" writes Doxey curator of Ancient Egyptian Nubian and Near Eastern Art.
But the first brand-new Alexandria (that is, after the Alexandroupolis in northern Greece, which he renamed rather than founded in 340 BC) was established not in Europe, nor in Asia, but in Africa, in the Nile delta, at that vast river's Canopic outlet into the Mediterranean.
Meni II fears in the end that his heart is "heavy as a Canopic
There will also be pots, statues and jewellery on display, as well as a mummified hawk and canopic jars where the Egyptians put internal organs once they had removed them from a dead person during the mummification process.