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This king was killed at age 19.
Who was King Tut?
This organ was left inside the body during the mummification process.
What is the heart?
This waterway is 4,132 miles long.
What is the Nile River?
Farmers used this technique in order to create more farmable land.
What is irrigation?
The Egyptians wrote in this form.
What is hieroglypics?
This god was the most important to Ancient Egyptians.
Who was Ra?
Mummies were identified using these objects.
What are small wooden tags?
The capital and largest city in modern day Egypt.
What is Cairo?
The tool used to cut down crops during harvesting?
What are sickles?
This activity was believed to encourage the divine spirit.
What is dancing?
The Pharoah who ordered building of the Great Pyramids.
Who was Khufu?
This fabric was used to wrap the mummies.
What is linen?
New Kingdom pharaohs (including Tutankhamn) were buried in this location.
What is the Valley of the Kings?
These objects were used to separate the grain from the chaff (husk).
What are winnowing fans?
The English word for paper likely comes from this Egyptian word.
What is papyrus?
This was discovered by Howard Carter in 1922.
What is King Tut's Tomb?
This type of container was used to hold the intestines of the mummies.
What is a canopic jar?
This sea was at the northern border to the Egyptian civilization.
What is the Meiterranean Sea?
Farmers depended on this natural event each year that would turn the Egyptian desert into farmland.
What is a flood?
The lower social class group consisted of these three groups of people.
What are farmers, laborers and slaves?
This greek arrived in Egypt during the 5th century BCE.
Who was Herodotus?
This substance is used in medicine, cooking, agriculture, and glass-making as well as dehydrating the body during the mummification process.
What is natron salt?
This piece of land was a barrier that protected Egypt from outsiders.
What was the Red Land?
Arid land with very little vegetation that lies to the east and west of the Nile Valley.
What is a desert?
This was thought to have killed the Lord of Carnavon after he opened King Tut's Tomb.
What is the Curse of the Mummy?