The Great Monuments
In reality there are a number of these monuments, but the one a Giza is the only one called "Great."
What is a pyramid?
Mummification was done is 7 steps and could take this long to complete.
What is 70 days?
This class of Egyptian society could be put to work on a pharoah's pet projects. Examples of their work included carpentry, leatherwork and pottery.
What are artisans?
Like Hebrew, hieroglyphics are commonly written in this direction.
What is right to left?
Like I-75, ancient people used rivers like these.
What are highways?
The great temple at Dayr al-Bahri was built by Hatsheput one of the few Pharaohs that was this.
What is female (a woman)?
Bodies were covered in this substance that dried it out and preserved it.
What is Natron?
To become this member of Egyptian society required 12 years of schooling and lots of memorization.
What are scribes?
The Cartouche was often painted on walls in tombs and monuments. It contained hieroglyphs that spelled this information--both the pharoah's personal name and his this.
What is coronation name? (royal name)
The Libyan, Arabian and Nubian are all example these geographic features which were natural and very hot barriers which enemies did not want to cross.
What are deserts?
The Temple at Karnak was built by Senusret I and is nicknamed this because of the alabaster stone used in its construction.
What is the White Chapel?
During the mummification process several organs were removed and preserved. Once completed the organs were placed in these types of jars.
What are canopic?
The vizier had more power that anyone in Egyptian society except this person.
What is the pharaoh?
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The secret to deciphering Egyptian writing was unearthed when a young Frenchman, Jean Francois Chapollion, used this stone marker.
This tough water plant was used by Egyptians to make paper and rope.
What is papyrus?
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What is a sarcophagus?
Abu Simbel or Ramses' temple has several unique features including this fact about its entrance that happens twice a year.
What is sun aligns with it?
Egyptian death masks could be made from gold or this cloth material.
What is linen?
Priests in Egypt did more than just pray. They even did this function mummifying the dead boy with preservatives to prevent it from decaying which was also known as this.
What is embalming?
Snake, chick, snake spells out the name of this half man, half lion protector of sacred places.
These three environmental factors greatly affect where the Egyptian people settled. They could be abbreviated WTV.
What are water, topography, and vegetation?
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What is the Rosetta stone?
This time period from 1600 to 1100 B.C.E. is known as as the New Kingdom and this.
What is the Golden Age?
Humans were not the only things the Egyptians mummified. Alligators, baboons and even this family pet could be preserved for the afterlife.
What is a cat?
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The name for this large stone coffin comes from the Greek words for "flesh" and "eating."
The word hieroglyphs comes from two Greek words, hieros meaning sacred and glyphein meaning this action usually done in wood or stone.
What is carve?
This animal that lives in the Nile river gets its name from two Greek words, "Horse" and "River."
What is a hippopotamus?
Final Jeopardy Category: The Great Pyramid
Clue: Taking more than 2 million stones and 20 years to complete, the Great Pyramid was built by this man.