| ROSETTA | Ptolemaic dynasty stone discovered in Egypt, it had inscriptions in Ancient Egyptian and Ancient Greek, and it was key to deciphering old Egyptian scripts |
| GEM | Precious stone discovered at end of long quartzite seam (3) |
| PHARAOH | Ancient Egyptian and Mia in conversation (7) |
| PYRAMIDS | Ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian monuments |
| CLEOPATRA | Last of the Ptolemaic dynasty, she is best remembered for her relationships with Rome |
| CLEO | Last ruler of the Ptolemaic dynasty, informally |
| TITLE | In Egypt, it legalises ownership |
| SPHINX | In Egypt it is just a big pussy cat (6) |
| LINEN | Used by the ancient Egyptians and medieval embroiders, a flax textile used in the present day for household textiles and summer clothes (5) |
| ROSETTASTONE | Rock slab discovered in Egypt in 1799 now housed in the British Museum (7,5) |
| VENEZUELA | Egyptian and Zionist leaders meet in location on the way to American city in South American (9) |
| PALENQUE | In 1839, Frederick Catherwood and John Lloyd Stephens found the city of Copan. They continued on their exploration of the Yucatan Peninsula and found "The Temple of the Inscriptions" in this ruined ci |
| PAPER | Invented 2,000 years ago during the Han dynasty by Cai Lun, material that replaced the papyrus of the ancient Egyptians and parchment/vellum (5) |
| EYEOFRA | Representation of the sun to the ancient Egyptians and a symbol of royal authority |
| SCROLLS | Ancient books in the form of cylinders of parchment or papyrus; or, ribbon-like ornaments bearing mottoes or inscriptions in architecture, art or heraldry (7) |
| PAPYRUS | A kind of paper made from the stem pith of an aquatic plant. used by the ancient Egyptians and others (7) |
| ELITISM | Sleeper car is introduced between Egyptian and Moroccan capitals - what snobbery! (7) |
| VULTURE | Bird of prey whose species include Egyptian and Ruppell's |
| ALEXANDRIA | Ancient capital of Ptolemaic Egypt (10) |
| TAMIL | Language of the inscriptions in the Tanjore temple |
