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- regent
- someone who rules for a child until the child is old enough to rule.
- hieroglyphs
- pictures and other written symbols that stand for ideas, things, or sounds.
- mummy
- a dead body preserved in a lifelike condition.
- Giza
- an ancient Egyptian city; site of the Great Pyramid.
- pyramid
- a huge building with four sloping triangle-shaped sides; built as royal tombs in Egypt.
- Lower Nubia
- the region of ancient Nubia between the 1st and 2nd cataracts.
- papyrus
- an early form of paper made from a reed plant found in marshy areas of the Nile delta; the plant used to make this paper.
- absolute power
- complete control over someone or something.
- Upper Nubia
- the region of ancient Nubia between the 2nd and 6th Nile catacracts.
- Nubia
- an ancient region of northeastern Africa (southern Egypt and northern Sudan) on the Nile River Valley.
- silt
- fine soil found on river bottoms.
- dynasty
- a series of rulers from the same family or ethnic group.
- astronomer
- a scientist who studies the stars and other objects in the sky.
- artisan
- a worker who is skilled in crafting goods by hand.
- ore
- a mineral or combonation of minerals mined for the production of metals.
- pharaoh
- the title of the ancient Egyptian kings.
- delta
- a plain at the mouth of a river, formed when sediment is deposited by flowing water.
- afterlife
- a life after death.
- cataract
- a large waterfall; any strong flood or rush of water.