An egyptian cobra (naja haje) about to eat a rat. This is the sacred egyptian snake featuring on the uraeus, and is supposed to

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An egyptian cobra (naja haje) about to eat a rat. This is the sacred egyptian snake featuring on the uraeus, and is supposed to have killed queen cleopatra

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