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The process of glass-blowing is represented in tombs at Beni Hassan of very great antiquity, and a specimen of Egyptian glass is in existence bearing the name of a Usurtasen, a king of the twelfth dynasty. Natrum, moreover, was an Egyptian product, well known from a remote date, being the chief ingredient used in the various processes of embalming.
Usurtasen III., in after times, was revered as the subduer of the Nubian land. By monarchs of this epoch, vast structures, like the temple of Ammon at Thebes and the temple of the Sun at Heliopolis, were erected. Amenemhat III. built the immense artificial reservoir, Lake Moeris, to receive and dispense the waters of the Nile. Under the twelfth dynasty is the blossoming period of literature.
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