Across
- 5. A key stone which allowed scientists to learn hieroglyphics
- 8. Egyptian practice of preserving a body so its soul can go on to the afterlife
- 9. famous Egyptian Pharaoh who took the throne as a child and died as a teenager
- 10. a plant that grows in the Nile and is used to make paper
- 11. tombs for the Pharaohs
- 12. Egyptians who kept written records using papyrus and hieroglyphics
Down
- 1. The writing system that Egyptians used
- 2. group of people that conquered and ruled southern Egypt for a century
- 3. the ruler of the Egyptians
- 4. Egyptian god of the afterlife
- 6. belief that the souls of the deceased live on after death
- 7. longest river in Africa, its flooding waters provided rich soil for crops each year