Mummification
During this process, the body would be treated, preserved, and wrapped to protect it in the afterlife.
What is the mummification process?
This part of the soul would leave the body each morning to watch over your family.
What is Ba?
A bucket attached to a long pole that lifts water from the Nile and empties it into basins.
What is a shadoof?
The king of Egypt with almost complete power, who was seen as the reincarnation of Horus.
What is a pharaoh?
This river was essential to the survival of ancient Egyptians.
What is the Nile River?
Special jars of the four sons of Horus, which were used to protect the body's organs.
What are canopic jars?
This part of the soul would journey to the afterlife.
What is Ka?
Man made rivers connected to the Nile to help expand farmland.
What are irrigation canals?
A complex writing system that combined the use of pictures and sounds. This helped Egyptians communicate and record information.
What are hieroglyphics?
Steep cliffs and large boulders that formed dangerous, fast-moving water.
What are cataracts?
A special salt used to dry out and preserve the body during mummification.
What is natron?
God of the underworld, architecture, and rebirth.
Who is Osiris?
Finely ground fertile soil from the Nile's flooding that is good for growing crops.
What is silt?
A group of rulers from the same family through multiple generations.
These two separate regions of Egypt unified to create one kingdom. The crown worn by the pharaoh was a combination of crowns from the two regions.
What is Upper and Lower Egypt?
An elaborately decorated and carved coffin used by the Egyptians to protect the mummy.
What is a sarcophagus?
During this ritual, a soul's heart would be weighed to determine if they lived a good life. Anubis, Thoth and Ma'at were involved in the ritual.
What is the Weighing of the Heart ceremony?
A structure for measuring the Nile river's clarity and water level throughout the year.
What is the nilometer?
These large structures were built as tombs for pharaohs.
What are pyramids?
Waterways that form fan-shaped areas of fertile marshland.
What is a delta?
These books were buried with the dead to help them make it through the underworld. They often included spells and enchantments.
What is the Book of the Dead?
One's heart would be weighed against this feather in order to pass onto the afterlife.
What is the Feather of Ma'at?
You would pray to this god for a good flood and harvest.
Who is Hapi?
Hieroglyphics could not be read until this stone was discovered. It contained a single passage written in three languages, making it easier to translate hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
These areas of dry land naturally protected Egypt from outside invaders.
What are the Eastern and Western Deserts?