الزرافة في مصر القديمة

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Africa is considered the main home for giraffe.

The giraffe is a distinctive animal creature, being its neck is the longest in the animal at all.

Jt was knovra by the ancient Egyptian and Nubian people since the prehistoric periods; but its i:awtngs on the antiquities in the historic periods were less common than in the prehistoric ones.

As the giraffe was drawn on the caves and desert valleys, as a desert animal.

The economic importance of the giraffe is being one of the main sources of leather that used in the high industries as well as in the blankets.

Moreover, its tail was considered the most important that was used in the wig industry.

The giraffe was used as a symbol to eliminate the evil of the hippo, which represented the god.

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Also the giraffe was associated with the solar religion as a symbol for the god Ra , due to the length and height of its neck .