Gods and goddesses
This was a triangular building built as a tomb.
What is a pyramid?
This is a person's soul.
What is Ka?
This Empire went to war with Egypt in 32 BC.
What is Rome?
This is what Egyptian houses were made out of.
What is mud and straw?
This is a jar in which the guts or organs of a mummy were kept.
What is a canopic jar?
This is the word for a preserved dead body wrapped in linen.
What is a mummy?
This is the god of the dead who had the head of a falcon.
Who was Anubis?
This was an Egyptian ruler.
What is a pharaoh?
This was the name for a person who could read or write.
What is a scribe?
Egypt is a part of which continent?
What is Africa?
True or false: The ancient Egyptians were polytheistic.
True
This is why the Egyptians had multiple gods.
What is they didn't believe any one person could do everything so they didn't believe any one god could be able to do everything?
This precious metal is what the Egyptians had their own mines for.
What is gold?
This was the last great warrior pharaoh.
Who was Thutmose III?
This is ancient Egyptian paper made from the reeds of plants on the Nile River.
What is papyrus?
This was the god of the afterlife.
Who is Osiris?
This word means a place where a dead body is kept in preparation for the afterlife.
What is a tomb?
This is the first woman pharaoh.
Who is Hatsheput?
These were the two most popular sports?
What are fishing and hunting?
This Egyptian goddess is married to Osirus and is the mother of Horus.
Who is Isis?
The Egyptian god of the Sky.
Who is Horus?
This was a monument to the god of sun.
What is an obelisk?
This young king became pharaoh at the age of 9.
Who was Tutankhamen?
This is a term for picture writing that the ancient Egyptians used. Words were spelled out by the way they sounded.
What is hieroglyphics?
This was a coffin in which a mummy was kept.
What is a sarcophagus?