Ancient Egypt Vocabulary
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- The next live, in which the dead are believed to live again
- afterlife
- Someone who rules for a child until the child is old enough to rule themselves
- regent
- A worker who is especially skilled in making something of value
- artisan
- An upright four-sided pillar that gradually tapers as it rises and ends in a pyramid
- obelisk
- Place at the mouth of a river where it splits into several streams to form an area of fertile soil.
- delta
- An early form of paper made from reed like plants found in the delta of Egypt
- papyrus
- A huge building with four sloping outside walls shaped like triangles, built as burial tombs
- pyramid
- An oval shaped symbol found in hierogliphics with the pharaoh's name inside
- cartouche
- The very rich fertile soil deposited each year by the Egyptian flood
- silt
- A burial monument that looks like a flat bench with sloped sides.
- mastaba
- The Egyptian symbol for life
- ankh
- A tablet discovered in 1799, three languages, helped historians to understand hieroglyphics
- Rosetta Stone
- A small stone carving of a beetle, placed over the heart as a good luck gesture
- scarab
- A preserved body
- mummy
- The title of the king/queen of ancient Egypt
- pharaoh
- A kind of picture writing in which pictures stand for ideas, things or sounds
- hieroglyphics
- A device used in old and modern Egypt to lift water from the river into canals or ditches
- shaduf
- A scientist who studies the stars and other objects in the sky.
- astronomer
- The jars which embalmers placed certain organs into
- canopic
- The salt used by Egyptians to help mummify the body
- natron
- A large waterfall, any strong flood or rush of water
- cataract
- A stone coffin
- sarcophagus
- A series of rulers from the same family.
- dynasty
- An Egyptian stature with the body of a lion and the head of a pharaoh.
- sphinx
- The largest stone monument in the world, a burial tomb for Pharaoh Khufu
- Great Pyramid
- The largest desert in the world, located in northern Africa
- Sahara
- The body of water located between Africa and Asia
- Red Sea
- The region at the southern end of Egypt
- Upper Egypt
- The region at the northern end of ancient Egypt, close to the Nile Delta
- Lower Egypt
- This pharaoh built the Great Pyramid at Giza
- Khufu
- The body of water located near of Africa, the Nile River flows inot
- Mediterranean
- At this city is located the Great Pyramid built by Pharaoh Khufu.
- Giza
- The world's longest river, ancient Egypt was said to be a "gift of the ..."
- Nile
- The country and civilization which developed south of Egypt.
- Nubia
- The special location where pharaohs tried to hide their bodies from tomb robbers.
- Valley of Kings
- Egyptian sun god
- RA
- The Egyptian god of the afterlife, weighted a person's heart against the feather of truth
- Osiris
- Believed to have united Upper and Lower Egypt together around 3100 B.C.
- Menes
- His tomb in the Valley of the Kings was discovered in 1922 by Howard Carter
- Tut
- A female pharaoh, the last pharaoh of Egyptian history, killed herself
- Cleopatra
- She was the first female pharaoh of Egypt, also the first woman ruler in all of history
- Hatshepsut
- This Greek leader conquered Egypt around 332 B.C.
- Alexander the Great
- British archaeologist discovered Tut's tomb in 1922 in the Valley of the Kings
- Howard Carter
- Wife of Osiris, on of the most powerful of all Egyptian goddesses
- Iris
- Son of Osiris, god of the sky
- Horus