Where they settled
This river is about 4,000 miles ( 6,650 kilometres ) long and is considered the longest river in the world.
What is the Nile River?
This is the process that preserves the bones and soft tissue of a body after death.
What is mummification?
By the age of about 17-20 yrs. old, most Ancient Egyptians have done this.
What is getting married?
This is an ancient Egypt tomb or burial place for the dead.
What is a pyramid?
A form of writing that the Ancient Egyptians are famous for.
What are hieroglyphics.
These were the reasons that the A. Egyptians planted seeds and crops near the Nile River.
What is moist and fertile soil?
This is done first, when all of the moisture is removed from the body.
What is the first step of the mummification process?
This is a time in Ancient Egyptian history between 1539 BC and 1070 BC.
What is the New Kingdom.
This is the largest structure (triangular prism shape) that was ever built.
What is the Great Pyramid of Giza.
A type of writing that makes a symbol stand for a word.
What are ideograms?
This happens to the river, between about May - August.
When does the Nile River flood?
This was done to the body after 35 days.
What is 'it was wrapped in linens'?
Dried mud from the Nile River was used to make these.
Where did the bricks in Ancient Egyptian houses made with?
This place was built between the years 2589 - 2566 BC.
What is Giza?
This is a type of cursive writing that was faster than hieroglyphics.
What is hieratic?
This is a kind of plant that was used to make paper.
What is papyrus?
This was put all over the body, after the organs were removed, in order to draw even more moisture from the body. It is a type of salt.
What is natron?
This is a period in history where members of the same family govern or rule.
What is a dynasty?
This material is used to build pyramids.
What is limestone.
This is the name of the large stone tablet that Jean Francois Champollion found in 1799, buried along the banks of the Nile River. It helped the Ancient Egyptian scholars to decipher hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
These are some of the crops that were grown in the Nile River Valley.
What are vegetables, wheat and papyrus?
This is where the Ancient Egyptians thought a person went to live after dying.
What is the afterlife?
This is the name for the place where the kings are buried.
What is the Valley of the Kings?
This oldest pyramid, built at a place called Saqqara is a step pyramid. A step pyramid is made by replacing rectangle blocks of decreasing size on top of each other. It was built for this pharaoh.
Who is Zoser?
This is a type of Ancient Egyptian writing where a picture stands for the sound of a letter. For example, the foot picture also stood for the sound that our letter B makes.
What is a phonogram?