Across
- 2. a period of reunification following Hyksos rule in southern Egypt
- 3. belief that the souls of the deceased live on after death
- 5. a period when Egypt was reunited and conquered Nubia
- 7. a period of political stability and prosperity in Egypt
- 12. Egyptian practice of preserving a body so its soul can go on to the afterlife
- 13. a plant that grows in the Nile and is used to make paper
- 15. A key stone which allowed scientists to learn hieroglyphics
- 16. group of people that conquered and ruled southern Egypt for a century
Down
- 1. leader during the New Kingdom who is known for erecting many monuments and is often regarded as the greatest, most powerful pharaoh
- 4. Egyptian form of writing that used small pictures to represent an alphabet
- 6. Egyptian god of the afterlife
- 8. longest river in Africa, its flooding waters provided rich soil for crops each year
- 9. Egyptians who kept written records using papyrus and hieroglyphics
- 10. tombs for the Pharaohs
- 11. famous Egyptian Pharaoh who took the throne as a child and died as a
- 14. the ruler of the Egyptians