Egypt Vocab

5. A key stone which allowed scientists to learn hieroglyphics
8. Egyptian practice of preserving a body so its soul can go on to the afterlife
9. famous Egyptian Pharaoh who took the throne as a child and died as a teenager
10. a plant that grows in the Nile and is used to make paper
11. tombs for the Pharaohs
12. Egyptians who kept written records using papyrus and hieroglyphics

1. The writing system that Egyptians used
2. group of people that conquered and ruled southern Egypt for a century
3. the ruler of the Egyptians
4. Egyptian god of the afterlife
6. belief that the souls of the deceased live on after death
7. longest river in Africa, its flooding waters provided rich soil for crops each year