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- 2. A body that is embalmed, dried, and wrapped for burial
- 4. Considered the peak of ancient Egyptian culture, bringing significant wealth and new ideas into Egypt
- 5. An area of desert canyons where many pharaohs were buried
- 9. A chamber for the burial of the dead
- 11. A river in Africa that is roughly 6,650 km long, it is among the longest rivers in the world
- 12. The system of pictorial writing used in Ancient Egypt
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- 1. One of the world's earliest writing systems, emerging in Mesopotamia around 3200 BCE
- 3. A stable and prosperous nation that unified the country and developed a complex bureaucracy
- 6. A statue with the body of a lion and the head of a person
- 7. The title given to kings of ancient Egypt
- 8. A number of monumental tombs constructed in Ancient Egypt in the shape of a pyramid
- 10. A tall, four-sided, narrow, and tapering monument which ends in a pyramid-like shape, or pyramidion, at the top