Ancient Egypt Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 2. Founder of the first Egyptian dynasty and the capital of Memphis
  2. 5. A market town in present day Sudan, an ancient Nubian city.
  3. 7. An ancient city capital of Upper Egypt.
  4. 8. A large waterfall; any strong flood or rush of water.
  5. 11. An early form of paper made from a reed like plant found in the marshy areas of the Nile delta.
  6. 12. A kind of picture writing in which some pictures stand for ideas or things and others sand for sounds.
  7. 15. A huge building with four sloping outside walls shaped like triangles.
  8. 16. A series of rulers from the same family
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  1. 1. The place at the mouth of a river where it splits into several streams to form an area shaped like a triangle.
  2. 3. A worker who is especially skilled in making something such as baskets, leather goods, tools, jewelry, pottery, or clothes.
  3. 4. Someone who rules for a child until the child is old enough to rule
  4. 6. A dead body preserved in lifelike condition.
  5. 9. The next life, in which the dead are believed to live again.
  6. 10. A scientist who studies the stars and other objects in the sky.
  7. 13. The title of the kings of ancient Egypt.
  8. 14. Rich, fertile soil deposited by the flooding of a river.