Ancient Egypt

The place at the mouth of a river where it splits into

several streams to form an area shaped like a triangle

• Delta

• Cataract

• Regent

• Silt

Rich, fertile soil deposited by the flooding of a river

• Silt

• Delta

• Papyrus

• Hieroglyphics

Rapids in a body of water

• Cataract

• Mummy

• Silt

• Dynasty

The next life, in which the dead are believed to live

again

• Afterlife

• Dynasty

• Artisan

• Astronomer

A series of rulers from the same family

• Dynasty

• Regent

• Pharao

• Afterlife

Someone who rules for a child until the child is old

enough to rule

• Regent

• Pharaoh

• Mummy

• Astronomer

A huge building with four sloping outside walls

• Pyramid

• Papyrus

• Delta

• Hieroglyphics

The title of the kings of ancient Egypt

• Pharaoh

• Mummy

• god

• Regent

An early form of paper made from a reedlike plant

found in the marshy areas of the Nile

• Papyrus

• Hieroglyphics

• Delta

• Pyramid

A scientist who studies the stars and other objects

in the sky

• Astronomer

• Archaeologist

• Meteorologist

• Anthropologist