Phamous Pharaohs and Devious Deities
A pharaoh who ruled from about the age of 9 to 19. His tomb remained untouched until 1922 when it was discovered.
Who is Tutankhamun?
Is the object which was used to help translate Egyptian hieroglyphs from demotic script, hieroglyphics and Ancient Greek.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
A mixture of tiny bits of rock and soil deposited by a river that would have been found in Lower Egypt.
What is silt?
A woman who obtained unprecedented power and conducted large-scale construction works.
Who is Hatshepsut?
The names given to the three main periods of Ancient Egypt and the times in between them.
What are the Old, Middle and New Kingdom and the Intermediary Periods?
Fertile flat land made of silt left behind as the river drains into a larger body of water.
What is a Delta?
Is a god of deserts, storms, disorder, violence, and foreigners in ancient Egyptian religion.
Who is Set?
This common cooking ingredient has been found perfectly preserved in ancient tombs.
What is honey?
The southern area of Ancient Egypt.
What is Upper Egypt?
Is the god of fertility, agriculture, the afterlife, the dead, resurrection, life, and vegetation in ancient Egyptian religion.
Who is Osiris?
Are all common types of treatments made from plants and herbs in Ancient Egypt (name one).
Who are cumin, acacia leaves, honey?
The name of the two tributaries to the Nile.
What is the White Nile and the Blue Nile?
A container where mummified organs are placed to preserve them for the afterlife.
What are canopic jars?
Is the pharaoh who drove the Hyksos out of the Nile Delta and got the land back for Egypt.
Who is Ahmose?
Name three modern countries the Nile River flows through.
What are Burundi, Tanzania, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, and South Sudan?