Priests
Who was considered the highest-ranked priest of all?
What is the pharaoh?
First, the embalmers removed the body's organs, such as the ___________, lungs, and liver.
What is the brain?
Most scribes worked for the _________________.
What is government?
Most artisans were _____________.
What is men?
They revolved their lives over what river?
What is the Nile?
The __________ ____________ advised the pharaoh and oversaw all religious ceremonies,
Who is the High Priest?
They used hooks to extract the brain through the__________.
What is nostrils?
Becoming a scribe was one of the few ways that men could__________________________.
What is rise above their parents' social class?
What did painters portray (paint) scenes of?
What is Egyptian daily life?
Throughout the season, farmers carefully ________________ the land.
What is irrigated?
Whose main duty was to oversee temples that were devoted to music and dancing?
What is the women?
Egyptians believed that the gods used the ____________ to judge a dead person's soul.
What is heart?
What age did scribes start school?
What is five?
Unlike scribes, artisans rarely got _____________ from the upper class.
What is respect?
What are the three seasons?
What is flooding season, the planting season, and the harvest season?
A temple's god was thought to live in a statue that was housed in a holy room called a ________________.
What is sanctuary?
What is the name of the special salt that was applied to the organs and body that dried them out.
What is natron?
What is the name of the Egyptian writing system?
What is hieroglyphs?
Who helped equip the tombs with artworks to honor and preserve the dead?
Who were the stone carvers?
Farmers could be punished for a poor harvest since they had to pay __________ in the form of ____________.
What is taxes in the form of crops?
Since Egyptians thought that in the afterlife a person's body remained with his or her dead spirit, they used a method called _______________ to preserve bodies from decay.
What is embalming?
The mummy was finally prepared for burial. First, it was placed in a wooden box, which was then stored inside a large stone coffin. What is the name of the large stone coffin?
What is a sarcophagus?
Scribes carried rolls of paper made from _____________, a remarkable Egyptian invention.
What is papyrus?
Pharaohs called upon hundreds of artisans at once to work on ____________ projects.
What are royal projects?
What is a sickle?
What is metal blades with short wooden handles?