Definitions
What is the name of the world's first paper-like material used by ancient Egyptians?
What is papyrus?
Who was the king who united Upper and Lower Egypt?
Who was Menes?
The area near Thebes where the tombs of many pharaohs have been found.
What is Valley of the Kings?
A landform that rises higher than a hill.
What is a mountain?
Second in command to the Egyptian king.
What is a vizier?
What is the title given to an Egyptian king?
What is a pharaoh?
This man was the first pharaoh.
Who was Akhenaton?
This monument has the head of a man and the body, legs, and paws of a lion and stand near the pyramids.
What is the Great Sphinx?
A flat or level area of land.
What is a plain?
The name of the secretary to the ruler in court.
What is a scribe?
What do we call a body that is wrapped and preserved for eternal life?
What is a mummy?
She was the only woman pharaoh in ancient Egypt.
Who was Hatshepsut?
The "Gift of the Nile" is another name for what place?
What is Egypt?
Low land between hills or mountains.
What is a valley?
The irrigation device used by the Egyptians.
What is a shadoof?
What is the tall, pointed pillar that represents the sun god, Ra, found in ancient Egyptian architecture?
What is an obelisk?
This Bible character became a vizier.
Who was Joseph?
This desert covers most of Egypt.
What is the Sahara?
A rock bed piled high in a river creating waterfalls.
What are cataracts?
King Khufu's tomb.
What is the Great Pyramid?
What term describes a time of serious shortage of food, often related to drought or crop failure?
What is a famine?
This pharaoh's tomb revealed much about ancient Egypt.
Who was Tutankhamen?
This continent is the world's second largest.
What is Africa?
A highland plain.
What is a plateau?
The key to unlocking ancient Egyptian writing.
What was the Rosetta Stone?