Egypt
Across
- 2. the highest figure head in Egyptian government, supposedly a human vessel for the gods
- 7. a guide for the dead to use on their journeys through the afterlife
- 12. ancient Egyptian written language
- 13. the part of the burial process applied to dead pharaohs bodies
- 14. the limited group of people who were able write in hieroglyphics
- 16. the first king of egypt
- 18. the annual flooding of the nile
- 20. the massive triangular prisms made of stone that were used as tombs for pharaohs
Down
- 1. the stone that made it possible to decipher hieroglyphic
- 3. Egypt and split into two parts called :
- 4. trading services or items instead of using currency
- 5. a way for representing fractions in ancient Egyptian language
- 6. the pharaoh who's mummified body kicked off the 1920's American mummy craze
- 8. the Egyptian god who was believed to be reborn each year the crops grew (after his brother scattered his remains across the land)
- 9. queen of Egypt and wife to Akhenaton
- 10. changed Egypt's religion from polytheistic to monotheistic
- 11. the last pharaoh of egypt
- 15. containers used by Egyptians during the mummification process
- 17. the river the provides for all of Egypt
- 19. they symbolize fertility, life, and regeneration