Ancient Egypt

4. someone who rules for a child until the child is old enough to rule
6. the Nubian section of the Nile that contained 6 rock-filled rapids
7. the mother figure that protected women and children; the wife of Osiris and mother of Horus
9. the god of the after-life; married to Isis and father of Horus
12. the next life, in which the dead are believed to live again
14. a worker who is especially skilled in making something, such as baskets, leather goods, tools, jewelry, poetry or clothes
15. a series of rulers from the same family
16. an early form of paper made from a reed-like plant found in the marshy areas near the Nile

1. the chief god, the sun god. He had a sun disk on his head and the face of a hawk
2. the place at the mouth of a river where it splits into several streams to form an area shaped like a triangle
3. the title of a King in ancient Egypt
5. a scientist who studies the stars and other objects in the sky
8. rich, fertile soil deposited by the flooding of a river
10. a kind of picture writing in which some pictures stand for idea or things and others stand for sounds
11. a huge building with four sloping outside walls shaped like triangles; in Egypt, pyramids were built as royal tombs
13. a dead body preserved in life-like condition