Across
- 4. The instrument to make markings on the clay tablets
- 7. The key to unlocking the meaning of the ancient Egyptian Language
- 9. The land between two rivers in the Greek
- 10. "The overseer of all works of the King"
- 11. The first "King of Upper and Lower Egypt"
- 12. Temples the Sumerians devoted to the gods
- 15. Egyptians harvested their crops
- 16. Loose sand that builds up slowly at the mouth of a river
- 18. Farmers held back extra water and planted their crops
- 21. The sun god
- 23. The plant from which our word "paper" came
- 24. The only female pharaoh
Down
- 1. A tall, pointed pillar that honored and represented the sun god
- 2. no farm work could be done during this season
- 3. The most influential writing system
- 5. The largest desert in the world
- 6. The Egyptian practiced this process to prevent dead bodies from rotting
- 8. Black, fertile farmland
- 13. The two rivers surrounding Mesopotamia
- 14. The dry, sandy desert where Egyptians built their homes
- 17. The longest river in the world
- 19. First known civilization in Mesopotamia
- 20. The Egyptian writing method
- 22. The Gift of the Nile
- 23. Burial sites of their pharaoh