Definitions
The largest of the three pyramids in the valley of Giza; built for the pharaoh Khufu.
What is the Great Pyramid?
Likely provided ventilation for the workers.
What are air shafts?
The earliest type of pyramid.
What are step pyramids?
Knowledge about the Old Kingdom comes from these.
What are artifacts?
Ancient Egyptian writing used from about 3000 BC to 1100 AD.
What are hieroglyphics?
A ruler of Egypt.
What is a pharaoh?
Possibly the pharaoh's original burial chamber or a fake chamber to fool robbers.
What is the underground burial chamber?
The material used to make step pyramids.
What is mud-brick?
The reason why the Egyptians were so careful to preserve things for.
What is the afterlife?
The year in which the Rosetta Stone was discovered near the Mediterranean Sea.
When is 1799?
A system of writing made of picture symbols.
What are hieroglyphics?
The location of the pharaoh's sarcophagus.
What is the Pharaoh's Burial Chamber?
The material that was used to make the smooth sides of later pyramids.
What is limestone?
Egypt's type of climate, which is why many artifacts have been preserved.
What is hot and dry?
The language used to translate the Egyptian symbols and words on the Rosetta Stone.
What is Greek?
An ancient rock stele or monument carved with Egyptian hieroglyphics, Greek, and another script
What is the Rosetta Stone?
A large passageway that leads upward to the pharaoh's burial chamber.
What is the Grand Gallery?
The number of pyramids in the valley of Giza.
What is three?
An artifact built in front of the pyramids to guard them.
What is the Sphinx?
The year in which the Rosetta Stone was successfully translated.
When is 1822?
A line of kings or rulers who belong to the same family.
What is a dynasty?
Possibly the location where the pharaoh's possessions were placed for the afterlife; the queen was actually buried in a smaller pyramid nearby.
What is the Queen's Burial Chamber?
Khufu's Great Pyramid covers this much land.
The form of paper that many Egyptian records were written on.
What is Papyrus?
The man that translated the Rosetta Stone's words and symbols.
Who is Jean-François Champollion?