Geography
This river ran through Egypt.
What is the Nile?
The pharaohs used the pyramids for this purpose.
What are tombs?
The Egyptians were the first to use this to make themselves look better.
What is makeup?
The Egyptians built these giant tombs.
What are pyramids?
This word meaning "great house" was used to describe the rulers of ancient Egypt.
What is "pharaoh?"
This is a dry sandy land with little or no plant life.
What is a desert?
This famous pyramid covers an area larger than 10 football fields.
What is the Great Pyramid near Cairo?
Egyptians used this to make themselves smell better.
What is perfume?
The Egyptians invented this kind of picture writing.
What is hieroglyphics?
The Nile did this every July.
What was flood?
This is the name given to the northern area of Egypt.
What is Lower Egypt?
The Greek historian Herodotus said it took this many men 20 years to build the Great Pyramid.
What were 400,000 men?
He was the Egyptian god of the dead.
Who was Osiris?
The Egyptians made this kind of paper from a river reed.
What is papyrus?
This is the year that king Menes united Upper and Lower Egypt.
What was 3100 B.C.?
This is the name given to the southern area of Egypt.
What is Upper Egypt?
The Pyramids contained these specially prepared dead bodies of the pharaohs.
What are mummies?
Egyptian woman wore their hair this way.
What are braids and ringlets?
The Egyptians created one of these that had 365 days,
What is a calendar?
The discovery of this stone enabled the translation of the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
The Nile River empties into this sea.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
Pyramid building began around 2650 B.C. and ended around this date.
What is 1637 B.C.?
The Egyptians drew around their eyes with this green or gray paste.
What was kohl?
The Egyptians based their calendar on this celestial object.
What is the sun?
This was the boy king whose tomb, containing many treasures was discovered in the 1920's.
Who was King Tut or Tutankhamen?