Ancient Egypt 1
A culture that worships many gods.
What is polytheism?
Evidence of the importance of hygiene to ancient Egyptians.
What are regular baths?
What is rudimentary plumbing?
What is bathing in the Nile?
An embalmed body wrapped in cloth strips.
What is a mummy?
This ruler was believed to be inspired by Horus (son of Osiris and Isis).
Who was the pharaoh?
Turned desert into fertile land for farming.
What is the flooding of the Nile?
Their hearts are eaten by Ammit/Ammut.
Who are the evil dead?
Often determined whether or not people were mummified.
What was wealth/social class?
Gave up his throne for Osiris in the land of the dead.
Who is Anubis?
What is the Ancient Egyptian pictorial form of writing called?
What are hieroglyphs?
What is "to ensure proper burial and necessary rites to prepare for the afterlife"?
Covered a corpse to dry it out.
Who is Set/Seth?
In the Egyptian language, what does "pharaoh" mean?
What is "Great House"?
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Allowed for the mystery of Egyptian writing to be solved.
What is demotic writing?
This organ stayed with the body during mummification.
Set used this to capture Osiris.
What is a magic box, filled with molten lead?
A collection of spells for a person who had recently died.
What is the Book of the Dead?
How long did a body have to dry out before it could be stuffed?
What are 40 days?
First organ removed from the body during the mummification process.
What is the brain?
What is a unique fact about women in ancient Egyptian culture?
What is the right to retain control of personal property after marriage?
What is the right to start divorce proceedings?
What is the right to retain custody of children after divorce?
What is the right for widows and divorcees to remarry at will?