I am a body of water. I am North of the Nile Delta. The Nile River empties into me.
Mediterranean Seat
I am a hot, dry piece of land. I am East of the Nile River. I am a desert that is smaller than the Sahara.
Nubian Desert
Egyptian form of writing that used small pictures to represent the alphabet.
Hieroglyphics
Egyptian practice of preserving a body so its soul can go on to the afterlife.
mummification
the ruler of the Egyptians.
Pharaoh
I am a narrow, fertile strip of land. I am located in the Nile Valley, in central Egypt. I am the fertile land in Southern Egypt.
Upper Egypt
I am a small body of water. I am located West of the Red Sea. I am the lake that is attached to the Nile River.
Lake Nassar
a plant in the Nile and is used to make paper.
Papyrus
a group of people that conquered and ruled southern Egypt for a century.
Hyksos
Egyptians who kept written records.
scribes
I am a very thin strip of water. I connect the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea together. I am a canal.
Suez Canal
I am a fertile piece of land. I am located North of the Nile. I am the land north in the north at the Nile’s mouth.
Lower Egypt
Egyptian god of the afterlife.
Osiris
a period when Egypt was reunited and conquered Nubia.
The Middle Kingdom
a key stone which allowed scientists to learn hieroglyphics.
Rosetta Stone
I am a triangular piece of rich land. I am connected to the north end of the Nile River. I am a delta.
Nile Delta
I am a large, dry stretch of land. I am West of the Nile River. I am a desert that covers most of Egypt.
Sahara Desert
belief that the souls of the deceased lived on after death.
a period of reunification following Hyksos rule in southern Egypt.
The New Kingdom
tombs for the pharaohs.
pyramids
I am a long, narrow body of water. I flow north, from Upper to Lower Egypt. I am a river that is 4,160 miles long.
Nile River
I am a narrow body of water. I am located East of the Nile River. I am a sea.
often regarded as the greatest, most powerful pharaoh.
Ramses the Great
period of political stability and prosperity in Egypt.
The Old Kingdom
famous Egyptian pharaoh who took the throne as a child and died as a teenager.
King Tut