Pharaohs and gods
A pharaoh who ruled from about the age of 9 to 19. His tomb remained untouched until 1922 when it was discovered.
Who is Tutankhamun?
These are burial places for important people, such as pharaohs. They are made from stone blocks and are still standing today.
What are the Pyramids?
The group that ruled Egypt, made laws and led the army.
What are the Pharaohs?
The continent where Egypt is.
What is Africa?
four jars used to put the insides of a corpse in the process of turning into a mummy.
What are canopic jars?
She became a pharaoh after her husband died. She organized an ocean voyage to bring things back home, like gold, ivory and valuable wood.
Who is Hatshepsut?
A plant that grows along the Nile, which can be used to make paper.
What is Papyrus?
They knew how to read and write. Wrote important information on walls and on paper.
Who are the scribes?
The desert that surrounds Egypt.
What is The Sahara desert?
Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon found a famous mummy and treasures inside it like a chariot and a jewerly box.
What is King Tut's tomb?
It is a huge statue in the desert. It has a human head and a lion's body. It is a symbol of a god and a pharaoh.
What is the Sphinx?
A system of writing that was made up of about 800 picture-signs.
What are Hieroglyphs?
Protection from the sun and kept away flies. it was green and black and Egyptians thought it made them look more beautiful.
What is eye make up?
This river is more than four thousand miles long. It flows north into the Mediterranean sea.
What is the Nile river?
Two animals that Egyptians used to help them with farming.
What are cows and oxen?
Three Egyptian gods. The father, whohas a green face, his wife and their son who has the head of a falcon.
Who are Osiris, Isis and Horus?
A stone with carvings that helped understand ancient Egyptian writing.
Who is the Rosetta Stone?
Egyptian workers made these from mud and straw and were used for building.
What are bricks?
These happened each year as water in the Nile river rose and left behind rich soil to grow plants.
What are floods?
A group of people who go on a trip for a set reason. Hatshepsut sent people on one of these.
What is a voyage?
The main Egyptian god. He is always shown with the sun above his head.
Who is Re?
A form of specific water transportation that the Egyptians are said to have invented that people use today. It uses the wind's power to move.
What is a sailboat?
The only part left inside a pharao's body after his death. Egyptians believed that the gods and goddesses would judge him by its weight.
What is the heart?
Instruments used by farmers to dig.
What are the hoe and plow?
pieces of papyrus put together.
What is a scroll?