Friday, November 17: Egyptian Vocabulary
Across
- 2. Ancient Egyptian paper
- 3. Capital of Egypt
- 6. Ancient Egyptian writing symbol
- 7. To preserve a dead body
- 9. A statue with the head of a human, body of a lion, and wings of an eagle
- 11. The direction the Nile flows
- 13. The Nile has one where it empties into the ocean
- 16. The sea that the Nile flows into at the end of its delta
- 18. Ancient Egyptian civilization is called the "___ of the Nile"
- 19. The body of water that separates Africa from the Middle East
Down
- 1. A small, human-shaped container that Egyptians placed mummified bodies in
- 4. The river that made Ancient Egypt possible
- 5. Eygptian Pharaoh that famously died at 19
- 8. Civilization started in the _______ Crescent
- 9. The largest hot desert in the world
- 10. What Ancient Egyptians made a dead person into
- 12. The object that let us translate hieroglyphs
- 14. A massive structure that Egyptians buried their dead in
- 15. An Ancient Egyptian leader
- 17. An area lower than its surroundings caused by flowing water
- 20. A series of rulers that all come from the same family