Geography
This is the largest river in the world.
What is the Nile?
This is a another name for a god or goddess.
What is deity?
This word means "writing"
What is glyphics?
He was the youngest pharaoh.
A period of food shortage
What is a famine?
This desert covers 90% of Egypt.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This god was portrayed with the head of a jackal and was the god of mummification.
Who is Anubis?
These were tall pointed pillars dedicated to the sun god.
What are obelisks?
She was the first female pharaoh
Who is Hatsheput?
This biblical character became the second in command to the pharaoh.
Who is Joseph?
Which body of water is north of Africa and supported trade between Egypt and other civilizations?
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
How were the brains removed from a body during the mummification process?
Tiny hooks were used to pull the brain through the nose
This, the largest pyramid, was built for King Khufu.
What is the Great Pyramid?
This word means "great house"
What is pharaoh?
The pharaohs who ruled between 1500 BC and 1100 BC used this valley as cemetery.
What is the Valley of the Kings?
Over 60 tombs have been found. The most famous, in 1922, was the tomb of King Tutankhamen.
The annual flooding of the Nile
What is inundation?
These were papyrus scrolls with spells that helped guide the dead safely to the afterlife.
What is The Book of the Dead?
What three languages are written on the Rosetta Stone?
The Rosetta Stone contains inscriptions in three different languages: Greek, Hieroglyphs, and Demotic. Greek was the language used by the ruling class of Egypt at the time, while Hieroglyphs was the sacred script used by the priests and elites.
These men oversaw everything, second in command only to the pharaoh.
What is a vizier?
Supervised all business of the Nile, collected taxes, controlled the army and Navy.
Most ancient Egyptians had this profession.
What is a farmer?
The ancient Egyptians called the Nile River "Ar" or "Aur," which means what?
"Black," because of the rich sediment deposited by the floods
This god was the favorite grandson of Ra and became the god of the Underworld after he was chopped into little pieces by his brother.
Who was Osiris?
Picture Prompt!
What is Abu Simbel?
This king united Upper and Lower Egypt.
Who is King Menes?
Picture Prompt!
What are these used for?
What are canopic jars?