Geography
This river was the centre of Ancient Egyptian civilisation.
What is the Nile River?
The ruler of Ancient Egypt was called this.
What is a pharaoh?
This god was believed to control the Nile River and its flooding.
Who is Hapi?
Ancient Egyptians used this writing system made from pictures and symbols.
What are hieroglyphics?
Ancient Egyptians are famous for building these giant triangular tombs for pharaohs.
What are pyramids?
Ancient Egyptians believed this animal was sacred and often kept them as pets.
What are cats?
The Rosetta Stone was discovered in the Nile Delta near the town of Rosetta and helped historians decode this ancient Egyptian writing system.
What are hieroglyphics?
This famous female pharaoh expanded trade and built impressive temples during the New Kingdom.
Who is Hatshepsut?
This god of the sun travelled across the sky each day.
Who is Ra?
People who copied records and wrote important information in Ancient Egypt were called these.
What are scribes?
This important stone helped historians decode hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
Ancient Egyptians sometimes slept on pillows made from this hard material.
What is stone?
The Great Pyramids of Ancient Egypt are located in this area near Cairo.
What is Giza?
Pharaohs were believed to be both rulers and this type of religious figure.
What is a god/divine ruler?
This god guided souls to the afterlife and protected the dead.
Who is Anubis?
This material, made from a plant growing near the Nile, was used like paper in Ancient Egypt.
What is papyrus?
Hatshepsut became famous for expanding this with nearby lands, helping Egypt become wealthier.
What is trade?
Both men and women in Ancient Egypt often wore this to protect their skin and eyes from the sun.
What is eyeline/makeup/kohl?
Hatshepsut’s tomb was built here, where many Egyptian rulers were buried.
What is the Valley of the Kings?
This young pharaoh became famous after his tomb was discovered almost untouched in 1922.
Who is Tutankhamun?
This god was associated with war, chaos, and storms in Ancient Egypt.
Who is Set?
Ancient Egyptians preserved dead bodies using this process to prepare for the afterlife.
What is mummification?
Ancient Egyptians created this process to preserve bodies for the afterlife.
What is mummification?
Ancient Egyptians shaved this part of their body to help prevent lice.
What is their head/hair?
What is Luxor?
After Hatshepsut’s death, this happened to many of her statues and inscriptions because later rulers tried to remove her from history.
What is they were destroyed/erased/defaced?
During the weighing of the heart ceremony, a person’s heart was weighed against this object to determine if they could enter the afterlife.
What is the Feather of Ma’at?
This social system ranked people from the pharaoh at the top to farmers and slaves at the bottom.
What is the social hierarchy?
This enormous pyramid is the only surviving Wonder of the Ancient World.
What is the Great Pyramid of Giza?
Ancient Egyptians believed this organ controlled thinking and emotions, so it was left inside the body during mummification.
What is the heart?