Ancient Middle East Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 4. made out of reeds and used to write on
- 6. the king Mesopotamia that made a code
- 7. mistress of magic
- 8. the name of stars grouped together to form signs
- 9. god of vegetation and ruler of the under world
- 11. the name for watering the land
- 13. the number the Egyptians number scale was based on
- 15. one of the seven wonders of the ancient world built by Egyptians
- 17. the people who invented the wheel
- 19. sun god
- 20. invention used to get water from the Nile river
- 21. a technique used to attach animals to their plows
Down
- 1. oldest and largest stone buildings in the world built by Egyptians
- 2. god of mummification
- 3. a system of symbols used to represent ideas or objects
- 5. the first stone used to make pyramids
- 6. a word that meant "words of the gods" in Egyptian
- 10. a mountain shaped temple with a pyramid shape base built to house the gods
- 12. god of Earth and water
- 14. the first metal Mesopotamians used for jewelery
- 16. mother goddess of all living things
- 18. the number the Mesopotamians mathematic sysem was based on
- 20. coin that weighed 180 grains of barely