Medicine
This plant was used by ancient Egyptians as a natural painkiller and anti-inflammatory.
What is the opium poppy?
This massive structure in Egypt was built as a tomb for the pharaohs and is made up of huge blocks of limestone.
What is the Great Pyramid of Giza?
This system of numbers, which used a combination of symbols and place values designating multiples of 10, was developed by ancient Egyptians.
What is the Egyptian or base 10 numeral system?
the name of the system of writing that the ancient Egyptians used
What is hieroglyphics?
the ancient Egyptian tool used to lift water from the Nile River to irrigate crops
What is a shadoof?
This ancient Egyptian medical document lists hundreds of treatments, remedies, and diagnoses.
What is the Ebers Papyrus?
This impressive temple in Luxor, built by Amenhotep III and later expanded by Ramses II, features a 24-meter tall seated statue of the pharaoh and an avenue of sphinxes leading to its entrance.
What is the Temple of Luxor?
This ancient Egyptian calendar was based on the movements of the sun and is still used in modern times for agricultural purposes.
What is the Egyptian agricultural calendar/Coptic calendar?
the name of the famous stone slab discovered in 1799 that helped unlock the secrets of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs
What is the Rosetta Stone?
What is wheat or barley?
This tool was used by ancient Egyptian surgeons to perform a variety of procedures, including the removal of tumors and cysts.
What is the bronze scalpel?
This iconic ancient Egyptian architectural achievement is a tall, four-sided pillar, usually made of a single piece of stone and often inscribed with hieroglyphics, used to commemorate the accomplishments of pharaohs.
What is an obelisk?
This ancient Egyptian clock used an object and sunlight to display the time of day.
What is a sun dial?
the title of the high-ranking official in ancient Egypt who was responsible for the administration of the country and the legal system, and who often had extensive knowledge of writing and record keeping
What is a scribe?
To control water flow to crops, ancient Egyptians dug these from the Nile to their fields.
What are irrigation trenches/canals?
Ancient Egyptian dentists were able to perform this dental procedure, using a tool called a dental bow drill to remove the tooth.
What is tooth extraction?
The ancient Egyptians are credited with inventing this architectural feature that allowed for more open and spacious interior spaces in their buildings.
What are columns?
This ancient Egyptian calendar was based on the cycles of the moon and consisted of 12 months of varying lengths, typically ranging from 29 to 30 days. It is the first example of a 365 day year.
What is the ancient Egyptian lunar calendar?
the name of the famous Egyptian book, which contained spells and prayers that were believed to help guide the souls of the deceased to the afterlife
What is the Book of the Dead?
Ancient civilizations used these tools to dig up fields for planting, however, Egyptians realized work would be much easier if they attached this to oxen.
What is a plow?
Ancient Egyptians believed that illness and disease were caused by an imbalance of these bodily fluids.
What are bodily fluids or "humors"?
This valley on the west bank of the Nile river served as a burial site for pharaohs and powerful nobles during the New Kingdom period of ancient Egypt, and is known for its richly decorated tombs.
What is the Valley of the Kings/Luxor?
In ancient Egypt, this type of clock used the flow of water to measure time and was often used in temples for religious ceremonies.
What is a water clock/clepsydra?
the type of paper ancient Egyptians used for writing and drawing
What is papyrus?
This farming tool is said to have been invented by the Egyptians and Mesopotamians at around the same time. It had a curved blade attached to a wooden handle. Farmers cut down crops by swinging this tool.
What is a sickle?