Pharaohs
Daughter of Thutmose I, wife of Thutmose II, and regent to Thutmose III, before finally becoming pharaoh.
Who is Hatshepsut?
The name of the Egyptians first writing system.
What was hieroglyphics?
Khufu used 2.5 million giant stone blocks to build this for his final resting place.
What is The Great Pyramid?
The goddess of magic and healing who pieced her brother/husband's body back together after he was dismembered by Set.
Who is Isis?
The vast majority of Egypt is made up of this land cover.
What is desert?
She was Greek and ruled Egypt for 22 years.
Who is Cleopatra?
The worship of multiple gods.
What is polytheism?
The process of preserving the dead in preparation for the afterlife.
What is mummification?
The god of chaos who married his sister Nephthys and dismembered Osiris.
Who is Set?
According to Greek historian Herodotus, it is the Gift of the Nile River.
What is Egypt?
This boy, son of the monotheist Akhenaten, became pharaoh at 13, restored polytheism to Egypt, but died at 19 under mysterious circumstances.
Who is King Tutankhamen?
Egyptian paper made from reeds.
What is papyrus?
Half human/half giant cat guardian of Khafre's pyramid.
What is the Sphinx?
Ammit ate this if you failed the feather test.
What is a person's heart?
Egypt's three seasons
What are flooding season, planting season, and harvest season?
This king united Upper and Lower Egypt for the first time and created the first Egyptian dynasty.
Who is Narmer (Menes)?
What people who wrote for a living were called in Ancient Egypt.
What is a scribe?
The Ptolemy Dynasty named this city after Alexander the Great and made it the greatest city in the Mediterranean world.
What is Alexandria?
Child of Isis and Osiris and god of the living pharaoh.
Who is Horus?
The Blue and White parts of this merge south of Egypt and continue downriver to the Delta and make this the longest of its kind in the world.
What is the Nile River?
This New Kingdom pharaoh ruled for 66 years, had eight wives and over one hundred children.
Who was Ramses II?
The stone engraving included the same text in three written languages, and became the key to translating hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
Pharaoh Akenhaton believed in Aton, the sun god, and wanted all Egyptians to adopt this new form of religious worship of just one god.
What is monotheism?
The handy guide of spells and tips to navigate your way through the afterlife to reach the Field of Reeds.
What is the Book of the Dead?
In Egypt where, for a period of nearly 500 years during the New Kingdom, rock-cut tombs were excavated for the pharaohs of the New Kingdom here at this sprawling site in Upper Egypt.
What is the Valley of the Kings?