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Egypt Facts
The Secret Chamber
Revealing the Mysteries of Mummies
The Winged Cat
AE Vocabulary
100
The river which runs through Egypt
What is The Nile River
100
Who is Lord Carnarvon?
What is a wealthy Englishman who funded the dig.
100
True or false: a mummy is a skeleton
What is false
100
The main character and hero in this story
Who is Merit
100
A preserved dead body
What is a mummy
200
Where most pharaohs were laid to rest and enter afterlife.
What is a pyramid
200
What was Howard Carters occupation?
What is an archaeologist
200
What is a mummy?
What is a preserved dead body.
200
Why does Baha throw Bast in the Nile River?
What is the cat caused him to trip and lose the amulet in the Nile River.
200
A good luck charm with special powers
What is an amulet
300
Most people in Egypt did this for a living
What is farming
300
When did the third visit to the tomb take place?
What is secretly at night
300
What is a canopic jar?
What is jars which they put the mummies' body organs into.
300
What did the Paraoh say Merit and Waha must do?
What is go to the Netherworld to hall of judgement to have their hearts weighed against Ma'at the feather of truth.
300
A grave or burial vault
What is a tomb
400
The Egyptians used this to write on: a reed from the Nile
What is papyrus
400
Name 3 things Carter found in the tomb of King Tut?
What is gold couches, vases, chariot wheels, statues, dried flowers, burial tomb (sarcophagus).
400
What does the word "decay" mean.
What is rot and decompose.
400
What does Anubis" The God of Mummification look like?
What is he has a jackal head.
400
The process of preserving a dead body
What is embalming
500
What the Egyptians built their homes out of
What is mud and straw?
500
What was the conflict between Carnarvon and Carter causing them not to talk?
What is where the treasures should go; England or Egypt
500
Name 3 ways a mummy can be made.
What is drying out with smoke, embalming,freezing, bogs, sand
500
How does Merit save herself from the pit of fire?
What is reads the spell on the final gate.
500
The rich soil that is left on the land after the Nile River floods
What is silt