Geography
The sea to the North of Egypt.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
Where the transfigured dead live.
What us the Duat?
The group of dynasties known as the "pyramid age".
What is the Old Kingdom?
The leader of the 1798 expedition to Egypt.
Who is Napoleon?
The ancient Egyptian profession responsible for the majority of reading and writing in society.
What is a Scribe?
The traditional southern boundary of Upper Egypt (the geographical feature, not the city)
What is the First Cataract?
The crown of lower Egypt.
What is the red crown?
The last Egyptian ruler before incorporation into the roman empire.
Who is Cleopatra VII?
The three scripts of the Rosetta stone.
What are Hieroglyphs, Demotic, and Greek?
The cursive script used from the Old kingdom and onward.
What is Hieratic?
The traditional colored lands designating desert and arable terrain.
The political regions of Egypt (similar to US states or counties).
What are Nomes?
The 1460 year astrological cycle based on the new year rising of Sirius.
What is the Sothic cycle.
The "Father of Scientific Archaeology" and prominent early British Egyptologist.
Who is Flinders Petrie?
The stage of Egyptian language used within a christian church.
What is Coptic?
The most important of the three trade routs leading from the Nile to the red sea (south of Hierokonpolis).
What is the Wadi Hammamat?
The concept of cosmic order, balance, and truth.
What is Ma'at?
The 3rd c. BC priest who divided Egyptian history into 30 dynasties.
Who is Manetho?
The French creator of the first Egyptian National Service of Antiquities and the founder of the First National Museum of Egypt.
Who is Marriette?
Propaganda inscriptions disguised as works from the past.
What are Pseudoepigraphica?
The branch of the Nile that runs into the Faiyum.
What is the Bahr Yusuf?
The concepts of linear and cyclical time.
What are Djet and Neheh?
The collective name for the grouping of dynasties 25-30.
What is the Late Period?
The two statues of Amenhotep III near luxor misidentified by ancient Greek tourists to Egypt and known for their tendency to "sing" in the mornings.
What are the Colossi of Memnon?
The first novel ever.
What is the story of Sinuhe?