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Hieroglyphics
Mummies
Famous Egyptians
Pyramids
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This is the longest river in the world.
What is the Nile River?
100
This is the type of letter that were usually left out when writing in Hieroglyphs.
What are vowels?
100
This is how the brain was removed from the body.
What is by inserting a hook up the nose and smashing the brain to pieces and then pulling it out?
100
This is how gods were often portrayed.
What is with the body of a human but the head of an animal?
100
This is the definition of grave goods.
What is a collection of food, clothing, personal objects, and even animals and servants that the decased would need in the afterlife?
200
This is the continent that Africa is located on.
What is Africa?
200
This is the reason that scribes were important.
What is because most Egyptians couldn't read or write so those who did learn were the only ones who could record events for later generations.
200
This is the definition of canopic jars what they looked like.
What are jars that held the organs of a mummified body that were usually decorated with the head of a god/animal?
200
This is why some people believe that King Tut had a curse.
What is the unusual number of people that were associated with finding and studying his body and tomb who died soon after.
200
This is the reason that archaeologists do not find many complete tombs.
What is grave robbers have been looting the tombs for thousands of years?
300
This describes the climate of Egypt.
What is mostly hot and desert, but fertile near rivers and moderate in coastal areas?
300
This is the definition of the Book of the Dead.
What is a collection of poems, prayers, and pictures that helped a deceased Egyptian reach the afterlife?
300
This is where the ancient Egyptians believed that the Ba, or spirit of the person, lived.
What is in the heart?
300
This is how Cleopatra was killed.
What is allowing a poisonous snake to bite her?
300
**DAILY DOUBLE** These are at least three other ancient civilizations that built pyramids.
What are Sumerians, Babylonians, Aztecs, Mayans, etc.?
400
This is the reason that the Nile River was so important to farming.
What are the floods that would regularly leave behind desposits of rich soil?
400
These are all of the parts of language that were expressed with different Hieroglyphs.
What are letters, words, parts of words, and ideas?
400
This is one way that organs were removed from the body.
What is cutting them out with a knife or draining them after they were dissolved in acid?
400
This is the empire that was trying to take over Egypt in Cleopatra's time.
What is the Roman Empire?
400
This is the main purpose of Egyptian pyramids.
What is a tomb for pharoahs?
500
This is the way archaeologists believe the first Egyptian mummies were made.
What is natural mummification because of the dry climate of Egypt?
500
This is the object that finally allowed archaeologists to translate ancient Egyptian and also how it worked.
What is the Rosetta Stone that was carved with the same passage in ancient Egyptian, later Egyptian, and Greek?
500
This is two ways that archaeologists can tell the difference between mummies that were rich or poor before they died.
What are the quality of the linen wrapping and if the fingers and toes are individually wrapped?
500
This is why the tomb of Tutankhamun was so unusual.
What is because grave robbers hadn't found King Tut's tomb so all of the treasures were still there?
500
This is a description of what the earliest Egyptian pyramids looked like.
What are stepped pyramids like the ones the Mesopotamians made?