Hieroglyphics
Egyptians made paper using this plant.
What is papyrus?
Brains were pulled out through this body part during the mummification process.
What is the nose?
This is how often the river flooded.
What is yearly?
The earliest type of pyramid the Egyptians created.
What is a step pyramid?
The sea directly to the north of Egypt.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
The name of the person who wrote down the hieroglyphics on papyrus.
Who is a scribe?
The name of the jars they would put organs in.
What are canopic jars?
This critical element is deposited during the yearly flood.
What is silt?
An entrance that was covered in limestone to prevent people from entering the tomb.
What is the original entrance?
The southern part of Egypt was called this.
This beetle was often seen in hieroglyphics.
What is a scarab?
This organ was left inside the body and used for a special ceremony.
What is the heart?
The Nile flows into this body of water.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
This is the area below the pyramid that had narrow passages.
What is the subterranean?
No crops could grow in this dry and barren area that gave important minerals, metals, and precious stones.
What is the Red Land?
An oval name plate. Hint - we made one of these!
What is a cartouche?
Who is King Tut?
A triangle-shaped area of soil at the mouth of the river that spreads out like fingers.
What is the Nile Delta?
A chamber lined with blocks of pink granite that contains the Pharaoh's sarcophagus.
What is the king's chamber?
The capital of Egypt.
What is Cairo?
A tall, four-sided stone monument that tapers upward and ends in a pointed, pyramid-shaped top with hieroglyphics on each side.
What is an obelisk?
The name of the box the mummy was put in for its trip to the after life.
What is a sarcophagus?
Beware of this reptile while you fish in the Nile River.
What is the Nile Crocodile?
The Ancient Egyptian pharaoh credited with commissioning the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Who was Khufu?
Egypt is on this continent.
What is Africa?