The Nile
The continent where this river sits.
What is Africa?
What is twice a day?
The typical direction one used to read hieroglyphs
What is right to left? / What is vertically?
An influence that changes interpretation.
What is perspective?
The process of preserving a body after death that involves removing internal organs (except for the heart) and then leaving the body to dry before wrapping.
What is mummification?
The crops commonly grown next to the Nile.
What are cotton and wheat? (or barley)
The condition by which a woman was granted full custody during divorce.
What is poor treatment (neglect, violence, etc.) of a wife and the children by a husband?
The leader associated with the Great Pyramid.
Who is the Pharaoh Khufu?
Caused by the misunderstanding of burial rituals and religious belief by outsiders.
What is the fear of mummies?
When a religion worships and believes in multiple gods.
What is polytheistic?
The breadbasket of Ancient Egypt.
What is the Nile Delta?
The process by which Ancient Egyptians married.
What is a legal contract without ceremony?
The languages found on the Rosetta Stone.
What are hieroglyphs, demotic, and greek?
The video, This Old Pyramid, explains why this theory is improbable.
What is a perpendicular ramp to the pyramid wall?
The most important female goddess in the Ancient Egyptian Pantheon and her husband.
Who is Isis and Osiris?
The three seasons created by the Nile.
What are akhet/flooding (or inundation), peret/growing, and shemu/harvest?
The only condition by which a woman could hold public office in Ancient Egypt.
What is belonging to the royal family?
Examples are: copper chisels, levers, copper pickaxes
What are tools possibly used by the Ancient Egyptians to build pyramids?
20 years, 23 years, 30 years, etc. are all options suggested by the two documentaries watched in class.
What is the amount of time taken to complete the pyramid?
Good luck charms or talismans that connected Ancient Egyptians to the power of the gods to protect them from known/unknown evils.
What are amulets?
A predator that was once widespread along the Egyptian riverbanks and held a prominent place in ancient Egyptian culture.
What is the crocodile?
A branch of medicine that traces its roots to Ancient Egypt and the Edwin Smith Papyrus.
What is neurosurgery?
The largest human figure in Ancient Egyptian art.
What are gods? / Who is the person with the most importance/power?
When an artifact is returned to the place where it was discovered/originated from.
What is repatriation?
A spiritual double which resides in the heart until death where it becomes separated from the body.
What is Ka?