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A plant used to make paper.
What is papyrus
A plant that was used to make paper.
What is papyrus?
An ancient Egyptian ruler who was believed to be part god and part human.
What is a pharaoh?
Egyptian pharaoh from around 1334 BC; also known as the boy king.
Who is Tutankhamen "King Tut"?
The process that preserves the bones and soft tissue of a body after death.
What is mummification?
A type of ancient Egyptian building used as a tomb.
What is a pyramid?
Ancient Egyptian stone tablet that helped modern people decipher hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
Things left over from ancient times.
What are artifacts?
Ancient Egyptian monument located at Giza. It has the head of a king and the body of a lion.
What is the Great Sphinx?
The river that runs through Egypt.
What is the Nile?
The location in Egypt of the largest pyramid ever built.
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A period in history where members of the same family govern or rule.
What is a dynasty?
People who study Egypt.
Who are Egyptologists?
Ancient Egyptian form of writing using pictures.
What is hieroglyphics?
A period in ancient Egyptian history from 2686BC to 2181BC.
What is the Old Kingdom?
Ancient Civilization located in southern Egypt.
What is Nubia?
A picture that stands for an entire word.
What is an ideogram?
Period of ancient Egyptian history from 1539 B.C. to 1070 B.C.
What is the New Kingdom?
An area in Egypt where many ancient Egyptian kings were buried.
A picture that stands for the sound of a letter.
What is a phonogram?
A period of ancient Egyptian history from 2025 B.C. to 1782 B.C.
What is the Middle Kingdom?
A type of Egyptian cursive writing.
What is hieratic?
The northern part of Egypt is called this.
What is Lower Egypt?
A type of ancient Egyptian writing derived from Greek.
What is demotic?
The belief in many gods.
What is polytheism?