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Symbol representing life and fertility in Ancient Egypt.
Whis is an Ankh (𓋹)?
The most important and high-ranking member of Ancient Egyptian Society
What is Pharaoh/King?
The god of the Nile's inundation.
Who is Hapi?
The crown of Upper Egypt.
What is Hedjet/White Crown (𓋑)?
The pharaoh was a living embodiment of this god.
Who is Horus?
The symbol showing the Papyrus Plant of Lower Egypt and the Nile Lotus of Upper Egypt being tied around the Pharaoh's Trakia.
What is the Sema Tawy (𓋍)?
The 1-5% of the Ancient Egyptian population who could read and write.
Who are scribes?
The two 'nations' that made up Ancient Egypt.
What is Upper and Lower Egypt?
The crowns of both Upper and Lower Egypt combined.
What is the Pschent/Double Crown (𓋖)?
The Pharaoh Percy Bysshe Shelley based his famous poem 'Ozymandias' on.
Who is Ramses II?
A symbol meaning 'eternity' that can be elongated to fit the name of the Pharaoh within.
What is a Shen Ring (𓍶)?
The tool peasants used to thresh (that is beat) the grains off of wheat and barley.
What is a flail?
The name the Ancient Egyptians gave the deserts surrounding the Nile.
What is Deshret/Desheret/The Red Land?
The symbols held by the Pharaoh to show they had total authority.
What is the Cook and Flail/Heka and Nekhakha (𓋾+𓌅)?
The Pharaoh that first united Upper and Lower Egypt through brutal conquest.
Who is King Narmer?
The direct meaning of the word 'hieroglyph'.
What is 'sacred carving'?
An ancient type of maraca, these instruments were mostly played by women during special religious ceremonies.
The name the Ancient Egyptians gave the fertile soil on the banks of the Nile.
What is the Black Land/Kemet?
The area where King Tutankhamun's Tomb was found.
What is The Valley of the Kings?
The Phrase "𓏙𓋹𓊽𓌀"
What is 'Giver of Life, Stability, and Power/Dominion' in Ancient Egyptian?
The Ancient Egyptian season of the inundation which occurred from June to October every year.
What is Akhet?
The special name academics have given the soil deposited by the Nile's Inundation.
What is alluvial silt?
A design of Ancient Egyptian tomb that predated Pyramids.
What is 'mastaba'.
The mother of both Ra and Horus, she has the body of a cow but the face of a human. She is the Ancient Egyptian goddess of love, beauty, happiness, & childbirth.
Who is Hathor?