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The world's longest river.
What is the Nile?
100
The young pharaoh who died at age 19.
Who is King Tut?
100
Picture symbols used by the Egyptians.
What are hieroglyphics?
100
The process used for preserving bodies for the next life.
What is mummification?
100
The organ often thrown away in the mummification process.
What is the brain?
200
why the Nile river is unusual.
What is because it flows south to north?
200
The ruler who built the great pyramids.
Who is Khufu?
200
The plant used to make paper.
What is papyrus?
200
The most important god to the ancient Egyptians.
What is Ra?
200
The kingdom from which Egypt gained the valuable export of gold.
What is Nubia?
300
The body of water the Nile river empties into.
What is The Mediterranean Sea?
300
The first king to unit Egypt.
Who was Menes?
300
People who could read and write in ancient Egypt.
What were scribes?
300
The god of the Underworld.
What is Osiris?
300
The people who introduced Egypt to chariots, bronze weapons, and bows and arrows.
Who were the Hyksos?
400
The end of harvest time.
What is June.
400
Used the Rosetta stone to decode hieroglyphics.
Who was Champollion?
400
The age boys began training to be a scribe.
What is the age of 10.
400
Two things often buried with mummies.
What is food and belongings?
400
Used to treat wounds.
What was moldy bread?
500
A bucket-lifter used to gather water from the river.
What is a shadouf?
500
Financed the expedition to find King Tut's tomb.
Who was Lord Carnarvon?
500
The artifact that was used to decode the hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
500
what the body was covered with to dry it out.
What is natron?
500
How long it took for a body to go through the mummification process.
What is 70 days?