Famous Egyptians
The architect of King Djoser's step pyramid.
Who is Imhotep?
In addition to taking soldiers to Egypt- what else did Napolean take?
What is he took an entire team of scientists, artists, archeologists and other scholars?
His troops uncovered the Rosetta stone?
Who is Napolean?
This is the definition for hierarchial proportion.
What is when a person in power, such as the pharoah, is depicted as being much larger than commoners?
This is the word used to describe the annual flooding of the Nile.
What is inundation?
An ancient Greek 'tourist' of sorts. We know a lot about ancient Egyptian history from this guy who visited around 450 BC.
Who is Herodotus?
The famous stella uncovered by Napolean's troops that ultimately led to the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
This man is ultimately credited with deciphering hieroglyphs.
Who is Jean Champollion?
The Narmer Palette may have been used for this.
What is to crush make up on so that the priests could apply it to the sculptures of the gods?
King Narmer was also known by this name.
What is Menes?
This Frenchman is credited with the study of modern day Egyptology as we know it.
What were the two battles that Napolean fought in Egypt?
What are the Battle of the Pyramids and the Battle of the Nile?
The Rosetta Stone is housed here today.
What is the British Museum?
This is the famous pose that King Narmer is shown in on the Narmer Palette.
What is smiting?
Define the word philological and tell what it means.
What is philo which means love and logos which means words.. the study of Egypt using words as clues?
The pharoah who united northern and southern Egypt.
Who is King Narmer?
Napolean was imprisoned for a second time on this island in the South Atlantic and is ultimately where he passed away.
What is St. Helena?
Name the 3 types of writing found on the Rosetta Stone.
What are 1. hieroglyphs, 2. demotic writing, and 3. Greek?
This is where we get the word delta from.
What is from the Greeks who originally thought that the Nile Delta looked a bit like their letter delta which is triangular shaped?
Define the word demotic.
What is writing of the people... demos comes from the Greek word- people?
The first pharoah to get the construction of the pyramids correct? (after 3 attempts)
Who is Sneferu?
When Naplolean visited Egypt, it was under the reign of the Ottoman Empire. What group of people was Napolean fighting?
Who are the Mamalukes?
This message is believed to be carved on the Rosetta Stone?
What is a sort of thank you note to Ptolmy V for taking away some of the taxes of the people @ the time.
Describe the serekh of King Narmer.
What is a rectangular shape that is supposed to represent a palace, with a fish on top and a chisel below representing the sounds Nar and Mer?
This is the word used for the little telephone booth sized room that was constructed with two eye holes carved out in case something happened to King Djoser's body.
What is a serdab?