People
Places
Things
Gods/Goddesses
Facts
100
The boy pharaoh of Egypt, whose tomb was found undisturbed in the Valley of the Kings.
Who is King Tut? (Tutankhamon)
100
The continent on which Egypt is located.
What is Africa?
100
A water loving plant that was used to make paper, sandals, baskets and rafts in ancient Egypt.
What is papyrus?
100
The Egyptian sun god.
What is Re, also called Ra?
100
The age at which most girls and boys married in ancient Egypt.
What is girls, 12 years of age and boys, 14 years of age?
200
The first woman pharaoh of Egypt.
Who is Hatshepsut?
200
The longest river in the world and it runs through Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
200
A triangular or fan-shaped piece of rich land that forms at the mouth of a river.
What is a delta?
200
Ancient Egyptian god of rebirth and of vegetation; ruler of the dead; husband of the goddess Isis.
What is Osiris?
200
farming/irrigation travel/transport drinking/washing
What are uses of the Nile River?
300
A person who studies the lives and cultures of ancient peoples.
What is an archaeologist?
300
Located in North Africa and is the world's largest desert.
What is the Sahara Desert?
300
The picture writing of ancient Egypt?
What is hieroglyphics?
300
The jackal-headed Egyptian god who was believed to hold the scales of judgement.
What is Anubis?
300
This carved stone, which was covered with writing in different languages, held the key to understanding the hieroglyphic writing of ancient Egypt.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
400
She was queen during the time of the Roman emperors Julius Caesar and Augustus.
What was Cleopatra?
400
The sea lying directly to the north of Egypt and the Nile River empties into it.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
400
An Egyptian stone monument that has the body of a lion and the head of a pharaoh.
What is the Sphinx?
400
The falcon-headed Egyptian god who was the protector of pharaohs.
What is Horus?
400
Rulers who are all members of the same family. Egypt was ruled by 19 different ones.
What is a dynasty?
500
One of the most powerful of all the pharaohs of ancient Egypt.
Who was Ramses the Great?
500
The first capital of a united Egypt. When Menes united Upper and Lower Egypt, this was its capital.
What is Memphis?
500
A coffin or burial box usually made of stone.
What is a sarcophagus?
500
The god of the scribes and wisdom, who had the head of an Ibis.
What is Thoth?
500
A fertile place in a desert with plants and water
What is an oasis?
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