The Afterlife
What side of the Nile River are the tombs built on?
West
Who would prepare dead bodies to be set in the coffin
Priests
Name four things that were in the tomb.
Jewelry, games, food, chariots, clothes, boats, and mummify their servants and pets.
The god Anubis had the head of what animal
a jackal
The Nile River
What is the Afterlife?
A place Ancient Egyptians believed you go when you die.
What cloth would they cover the body with?
Linen
Which Pharoh's tomb was believed to be cursed?
Tutankhamen
What did the god Anubis compare the heart to
A feather
True or False: Black cats were believed to be unlucky in Ancient Egypt
FALSE
What would the Ancient Egyptians build for an important person such as a Pharoh?
A pyramid.
What were the four parts of the body that would be removed and put into jars?
Brain, liver, intestines, and lungs
What would be put in the tomb that held the organs?
Four jars
What did the dead have to do to visit the living?
Pass the god Anubis by having your heart weighed and having weigh less than a feather.
What was Egypt in that made it so hard to invade?
A desert
Why did the put the pyramid on the west side of the river?
That was where the sun set
What was the salt that they covered the body with called?
Natron
What was the coffin that they put the body in called
A sarcophagus
True or False: If your heart weighed more than a feather, they got to transform into spirits to visit the living
False
What did Ancient Egyptians use to make their paper?
Papyrus
Who was the God of the afterlife?
Anubis
What are the four steps in the mummification process?
They would wash and oil the body, then set it back onto a table, then they would pull out all the organs except the heart and put natron on it, then they would clean the body and put spices on it, wrap it in linen, and then they would put the body into a coffin
The Ancient Egyptian's writing was called what?
Hieroglyphs
What three animals are the eater of the dead
Lion, hippo, and crocodile
From top to bottom, what were the seven positions on Ancient Egypt's social pyramid?
Pharoh, Government Officials, Priests, Scribes, Artisans, Peasants, and Slaves.