📚 VOCABULARY
A picture representing an object, sound, or idea that was part of the ancient Egyptian writing system.
Hieroglyph
The famous stone that helped scholars understand ancient Egyptian writing.
Rosetta Stone
Egyptian doctors developed knowledge about this by observing and treating injuries and illnesses.
The human body
Egyptians used this subject to measure land and solve practical problems.
Mathematics
The Egyptian art form that often decorated tombs and temples with scenes of daily life and religion.
Wall paintings
A paperlike material made from reeds.
Papyrus
The language that appeared on the Rosetta Stone and helped scholars understand hieroglyphs.
Greek
The process that helped Egyptians learn about the body while preparing the dead.
Mummification
A field of mathematics involving shapes, sizes, and measurements.
Geometry
Large carved figures of people or animals created by ancient Egyptians.
Statues
A professional writer who recorded official information.
Scribe
The people whose knowledge of reading and writing allowed them to keep important records.
Educated officials
Egyptian medical knowledge was often recorded in these written instructions.
Medical texts
A major building project that required advanced mathematical knowledge.
Pyramids
Ancient Egyptian artists often used this system to show a person's social importance through size.
Hierarchical proportion
The ancient Egyptian writing system that used pictures to represent objects, sounds, and ideas.
Hieroglyphic writing
A major advantage of papyrus over carving writing into stone.
It was easier to write on and carry
The study of the stars and other objects in space.
Astronomy
Egyptians used measurements to help survey and redraw this after Nile floods changed its boundaries.
Farmland
The lasting Egyptian contributions in writing, medicine, science, mathematics, art, and architecture.
Ancient Egypt's legacy
The lasting cultural and technological contributions left behind by a civilization.
Legacy
The modern field that studies and interprets ancient writing and languages.
Linguistics
Egyptians used their knowledge of astronomy to help create this way of organizing the year.
Calendar
The field of design and construction that produced Egypt's famous monuments.
Architecture
The reason historians still study ancient Egyptian achievements today.
Their influence on later civilizations