Geography
This river flows from south to north and empties into the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Nile River?
This was the god of the underworld.
Who is Osiris?
This is a structure built for burial, usually underground or cut into a rock.
What is a tomb?
This person was believed to be descended from the gods.
Who is pharaoh?
This is the system of writing used in Ancient Egypt.
What is hieroglyphics?
This is a small stream that breaks off of a river.
What is a branch?
This was the sun god and the creator of many other gods.
Who is Ra?
A preserved dead body wrapped in linen is called this.
What is a mummy?
This group of people built the pyramids and other structures during the flooding season.
What are peasants?
These people did most of the writing in Ancient Egypt.
Who are scribes?
This is the rocks, minerals, and other material that gets swept along by a river and deposited at a river's delta.
What is silt?
This was the god of burial, funerals, and mummification.
Who is Anubis?
This is a stone coffin, often decorated with writing or images.
What is a sarcophagus?
This group of people served the gods and prepared bodies for burial.
What are priests?
This is the plant-based paper used in Ancient Egypt.
What is papyrus?
This early Egyptian kingdom was located in the delta.
What is Lower Egypt?
This was the goddess of healing, magic, and fertility.
Who is Isis?
Offerings of food and drink were brought each day to nourish this "double."
What is a ka?
This group of people created objects, such as pottery, jewelry, and stoneware.
What are artisans?
This text contains spells and prayers for the dead.
What is the Book of the Dead?
These waterfalls served as natural buffers to the south of Egypt.
What are cataracts?
This was the god of kingship and the sky.
Who is Horus?
This spiritual part of a person was imagined as a bird with the face of a human who came into existence after a person's death.
What is a ba?
This person was the second most powerful person in Ancient Egypt.
Who is the vizier?
This artifact helped historians learn how to read hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?