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The largest of the three pyramids in the valley of Giza; built for the pharaoh Khufu.
What is the Great Pyramid?
The river that flows through Egypt.
What is the Nile?
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?
The longest river in the world.
What is the Nile River?
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?
What is Africa?
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?
The type of land that Egypt is made up of everywhere besides the Nile.
What is desert?
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?
The dangerous sections of the Nile where rapids appear.
What are cataracts?
The city that the Sphinx can be found in.
What is Giza?
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?