Egypt Culture

2. The largest and grandest of the funeral monuments
4. City founded by Akhenaton for a fresh start to his monotheistic religion
6. What subject did the priestly caste understand
8. Who's the universal god and the god of the sun?
11. Famous pyramids built for pharaoh's funeral and burial
13. Originally named Amenhotep IV
15. valley Over-flowed its banks each year, and deposited rich, black soil on the adjacent farmland
16. Akhenaton's queen; found at Tel el Amarna
17. First queen of Egypt
18. Served as convenient quarries; burial places for pharaohs
20. caste Had a major influence on the design and decoration of Egypt's temples

1. Town that held the Temple of Amah
3. Burdened with the responsibility to keep the universe balanced and orderly; believed to be a god
5. II Statues that flank the entrance to the Temple of Amon
7. The only pharaoh whose tomb was almost completely intact and unplundered
9. Halls of giant columns
10. A statue that was considered the vessel of the deceased's immortal other self
12. IV He rejected the gods and rituals of his ancestors; accepted monothesism
14. What was the concern of the upper-class Egyptians?
19. Gateways