Ancient Egypt

a scientist who studies the stars and other objects in the sky

• astronomer

• scientist

• physicist

• chemist

an early form of paper made from a reed-like plant found in the marshy areas of the Nile delta

• papyrus

• scroll

• parchment

• vellum

a kind of picture writing in which some pictures stand for ideas or things and others stand for sounds; the written signs a symbols used by the Egyptians

• hieroglyphs

• cuneiform

• runes

• calligraphy

an ancient Egyptian City, site of the Great Pyramid

• Giza

• Thebes

• Memphis

• Luxor

a huge building with four sloping triangle-shaped sides, built as a royal tomb in Egypt

• pyramid

• obelisk

• sphinx

• temple

a dead body preserved in lifelike condition

• mummy

• zombie

• skeleton

• corpse

complete control over someone or something

• absolute power

• total control

• supreme authority

• unlimited rule

life after death

• afterlife

• reincarnation

• eternity

• immortality

a desert region and ancient kingdom in the Nile River Valley, in present-day southern Egypt and northern Sudan

• Nubia

• Sahara

• Kush

• Libya

someone who rules for a child until the child is old enough to rule

• regent

• guardian

• caretaker

• protector