The Gift of the Nile
This is the longest river in the world, which provided life to the Egyptian civilization for over 5,000 years.
What is the Nile River?
Often called the "boy king," his nearly untouched tomb was discovered in 1922 and provided many artifacts.
Who is Tutankhamen (or King Tut)?
In Ancient Egypt, pyramids were primarily constructed for this purpose.
What is a Tomb (for the pharaoh)?
At the very top of the Egyptian social pyramid, this person was believed to be part-god and part-human.
Who is the Pharaoh?
This stone tablet, found in 1799, allowed modern scholars to finally decode and read Ancient Egyptian writing.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
This is the low, triangular area where the Nile divides before entering the Mediterranean Sea, creating a rich farming region.
What is a Delta?
He is considered the first pharaoh because he unified Upper and Lower Egypt into one nation around 3100 BCE.
Who is Menes?
This preservation process for bodies was practiced because Egyptians believed you needed your physical body in the afterlife.
What is Mummification?
Egyptians used this marsh reed to create a paper-like writing material, as well as rope and sandals.
What is Papyrus?
This Ancient Egyptian writing system used pictures to represent ideas, actions, or sounds.
What are Hieroglyphics?
This nutrient-rich sediment was deposited by the Nile after its yearly flooding, making the soil very fertile for farming.
What is Silt?
This famous female pharaoh ruled for 20 years, focused on trade missions to Punt, and built the Dayr al-Bahrī temple.
Who is Hatshepsut?
This term describes the Egyptian religious belief in worshipping many gods.
What is Polytheism?
These professional record-keepers and writers had to study for many years, copying passages from sunrise to sundown.
Who are Scribes?
This is the term for the oval or oblong rope symbol that encircled and protected the hieroglyphs of a pharaoh's name.
What is a Cartouche?
To lift water from the river to their irrigation canals, farmers used this weighted pole tool.
What is a Shaduf
Known as the "Pyramid Builder," he was responsible for constructing the Great Pyramid at Giza.
Who is King Khufu?
He was the sun god and first ruler of Egypt, often depicted with a human body and the head of a hawk.
Who is Ra?
This was the standardized unit of length used in architecture, measured from a man's elbow to the tip of his middle finger.
What is a Cubit?
Archaeologists who have studied x-rays of mummies have concluded that ancient Egyptian doctors were advanced enough to perform this specific medical procedure.
What is setting broken bones?.
Ancient Egyptians organized their agricultural year into three seasons; name them in order.
What are Akhet (flood), Peret (planting), and Shemu (harvest)?
This pharaoh ruled for over 60 years, built temples like Luxor, and led successful military campaigns against the Hittites.
Who is Ramses II (or Ramses the Great)?
Egyptians believed the spirit, or this, needed a physical place (like the body or a statue) to return to in order to live forever.
What is the Ka?
This popular Egyptian board game, found in royal tombs, involved using sticks as dice to knock an opponent off the board.
What is Senet?
To decipher the Rosetta Stone, scholars matched the names of royalty written in these three languages found on the stone.
What are Hieroglyphics, Demotic, and Ancient Greek?