Egypt Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 2. A body that is embalmed, dried, and wrapped for burial
  2. 4. Considered the peak of ancient Egyptian culture, bringing significant wealth and new ideas into Egypt
  3. 5. An area of desert canyons where many pharaohs were buried
  4. 9. A chamber for the burial of the dead
  5. 11. A river in Africa that is roughly 6,650 km long, it is among the longest rivers in the world
  6. 12. The system of pictorial writing used in Ancient Egypt
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  1. 1. One of the world's earliest writing systems, emerging in Mesopotamia around 3200 BCE
  2. 3. A stable and prosperous nation that unified the country and developed a complex bureaucracy
  3. 6. A statue with the body of a lion and the head of a person
  4. 7. The title given to kings of ancient Egypt
  5. 8. A number of monumental tombs constructed in Ancient Egypt in the shape of a pyramid
  6. 10. A tall, four-sided, narrow, and tapering monument which ends in a pyramid-like shape, or pyramidion, at the top