Pyramids
True or False: slaves built the great pyramid at Giza
False! evidence suggests that they were paid laborers or farmers working outside the growing season
what was ancient Egypt's alcohol of choice?
Beer
What type of religion did ancient egyptians have?
polytheism
How was the brain removed?
Hooked tool via the nose
What's the largest of the pyramids?
Khufu
if you were an average citizen, what would you house be made of?
Mud
Which God ruled the underworld?
Osiris
What substance was the body kept in after death?
Natron
Ramps, pulleys and water
Where was the capital?
Memphis
If you were a good person, where did you go in the afterlife?
The field of Reeds
in cheaper mummifications, what was used in lieu of removing organs?
Oil of cedar
What was the first "true" pyramid
the Red Pyramid
How common was incest?
Not very, surprisingly
where, according to the religion's origin story, do men and women come from?
Atum-Ra's tears
What might you hire a Kite of Nephthys to do at a funeral?
Cry!
who built the first pyramid?
King Djoser
What, and i am not even kidding, was "the Gobbler"?
Ammut, who ate your heart if it was heavier than a feather.
What 4 organs go into the Canopic Jars?
lungs, stomach, liver, intestines