Tombs and Burial
This happened to buried bodies naturally in the Ancient Egyptian desert, and then became an intentional practice.
What is mummification?
This creature represented rebirth to the Ancient Egyptians.
Ancient Egypt's three eras of kingdoms are referred to by these names.
What are Old, Middle, and New?
This jackal-headed god is the god of the afterlife and mummification.
Who is Anubis?
What is the Valley of the Kings?
These people were buried beneath the Great Pyramids.
Who are pharaohs?
What is the body?
Ancient Egypt entered the Ptolomeic period after this king conquered it.
Who was Alexander the Great?
Hapy was thought to control the floods of this important river in Ancient Egypt.
What is the Nile?
The Ancient Egyptians believed pharaohs turned into these after their death.
What are gods?
During mummification, this organ was never removed.
What is the heart?
The deceased person's relatives would bring these items to feed the ka, or the "life-force" half of a person's spirit.
What is food?
Ancient Egypt finally "fell" after it was conquered by this emperor.
Who was Augustus Caesar?
This god and goddess couple are made up of the god of the underworld and the goddess of healing and magic.
Who are Isis and Osiris?
On the walls of Perneb's tomb, people were depicted doing this.
What is bringing food to Perneb?
This part of the deceased person's spirit was often depicted as a bird because it had to travel to the underworld and back.
What is the ba?
The times between kingdoms in Ancient Egypt are referred to as this.
What are intermediate periods?
This god was created by Akhenaten, and became the sole god of a monotheistic religion.
Who was Aten?
The sphinx depicts one of the pharaohs buried in this significant tomb.
What are the Great Pyramids?
Though the person was actually buried in the burial chamber, deep underground, this upper part of the tomb was used for worship and rituals.
What is the mastaba?
When in the Underworld, the deceased's heart would be weighed against this goddess, or her symbol, the feather.
Who is Ma'at?
These gods are depicted on canopic jars.
Who are the Four Sons of Horus?
This significant tablet is how we cracked hieroglyphics!
What is the Rosetta Stone?