Across
- 1. There are more than 200 of them in Meroe
- 4. The first known written scripts in Africa
- 6. Method of preserving a dead body
- 10. Industry that employs 70% of the people of Mali
- 12. Conquered by the Sultan of Morocco in 1591
- 13. Empire Structures made of earth and straw
- 14. Seafaring empire
- 15. Stone pillars carved from a single stone
- 17. Measured time with water and a container
- 18. Nubian empire lasting more than 1,400 years
Down
- 1. "The Land of the Gods"
- 2. 2,000 year-old script of 182 symbols that created words and numbers
- 3. Structures made of earth and straw
- 5. Sweet smelling substance burned for its smell
- 7. Resin used to make incense
- 8. Devices using the sun's shadow to tell time
- 9. Writing made of symbols
- 11. "houses of stone" that were 32 feet tall
- 16. Kingdom with no known origin