What is the name of the system of writing used in ancient Egypt?
100
The youngest recorded pharaoh who died at the age of 19.
Who was King Tut.
100
Natron
What is the drying material used in the process of mummification?
100
Nile
What is the main waterway in Egypt?
100
Rosetta Stone
What is the stone discovered with three different languages that helped decipher the Egyptian Hieroglyphics?
200
Pharaohs
Who were the heads of the Egyptian governments. They are remembered for establishing extensive irrigation systems and for building tombs as the imposing pyramids, which still stand today.
200
Anubis
Who is the God of the Dead?
200
The brain
The embalmers thought this organ unimportant and removed it from the body without preserving it for the afterlife.
200
Cairo
What is the capitol of Egypt now?
200
This was believed to give the power of creation and many Egyptians wore amulets with its image.
What is a scarab beetle?
300
Scribe
Who was a person who copied out documents, especially one employed to do this before printing was invented.
300
Cleopatra
Who was the female pharaoh who worked to ally Rome with Egypt but was eventually defeated by the Roman Army.
300
70
How many days did the mummification process usually take?
300
Valley of the Kings
What is place located in Lower Egypt that has thousands of buried tombs to protect the dead from grave robbers?
300
Used as a guide and instruction book by Egyptians to help them reach the Fields of Paradise.
What is The Book of the Dead?
400
mummification
What is to preserve (a corpse) from decay, originally with spices and now usually by arterial injection of a preservative; synonym: mummification
400
Gods on the canopic jars representing the four children of Horus.
Who were Duamufet, Qubehsenuef, Hapi, and Imseti?
400
to keep bacteria from decomposing the physical body
What is the main reason the Egyptians used the mummification process?
400
Alexandria
What is the name of the city founded by Alexander the Great and where the first library was located.
400
The Nile feds into this body of water.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
500
unabated
What is undiminished force, power, or vigor; at full strength or intensity
500
Anubis and Horus
Who were the two Gods to meet the dead and guide them through the Hall of Judgement in the afterlife?
500
Ba, Ka, Akh, name, and shadow
What are the five parts the Egyptians believed made a complete person?
500
cataracts
What are obstacles (rapids, shallow water) that made navigation difficult on the Nile?
500
The first Egyptian ruler who unified lower and upper Egypt.