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  • The small ceramic pyramid – in some reports also referred to as a benben stone, because of apparent visual similarities with such stones in Egypt – is a major discovery, showing that local people, millennia ago, created ceramic objects in the shape of a pyramid.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Jan 2008

  • The small ceramic pyramid – in some reports also referred to as a benben stone, because of apparent visual similarities with such stones in Egypt – is a major discovery, showing that local people, millennia ago, created ceramic objects in the shape of a pyramid.

    New Artifact Found Near Bosnian "Pyramid" Jan 2008

  • The small ceramic pyramid - in some reports also referred to as a benben stone, because of apparent visual similarities with such stones in Egypt - is a major discovery, showing that local people, millennia ago, created ceramic objects in the shape of a pyramid.

    Unexplained Mysteries 2008

  • Dun wurry ai nawt tink taht, ai jus wunted yu tu kneow jus in caes sumwun wud liek benben if hims get chance tu go tu udder hoem iz still awl gud.

    they had no toyz…. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • I sory ai nawt wanted tu maek yu feels bad at awl ai jus wants benben tu beh happihappi adn ifs taht happins ai kan taek wun ob yur udder fusterbabbehs ifs ai can an gibs dem gud homs

    they had no toyz…. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • Kemp the connection between the benben, the phoenix and the sun may well have been based on alliteration: the rising, weben, of the sun sending its rays towards the benben, on which the benu bird lives.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Jan 2008

  • Utterance 600 of the Pyramid Texts speaks of Atum as you rose up, as the benben, in the Mansion of the Benu in Heliopolis Hart, p.16.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Jan 2008

  • Kemp the connection between the benben, the phoenix and the sun may well have been based on alliteration: the rising, weben, of the sun sending its rays towards the benben, on which the benu bird lives.

    New Artifact Found Near Bosnian "Pyramid" Jan 2008

  • Utterance 600 of the Pyramid Texts speaks of Atum as you rose up, as the benben, in the Mansion of the Benu in Heliopolis Hart, p.16.

    New Artifact Found Near Bosnian "Pyramid" Jan 2008

  • He broke the seal, unbolted and opened the doors of the shrine, and looked upon Father Rā in Het-benben.

    The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians 1895

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