Mummies and tombs

Egyptian religion is

• monotheistic

• polytheistic

Peasants worked on building the pyramids

• during flood season

• all year

• whenever the pharaoh said so

The Egyptians mummified the dead so

• the family could keep the body at home

• the soul had a resting place

• the priests had something to do

Mummification stopped

• when Alexander the Great was pharaoh

• when they ran out of linen cloth

• when Christianity became the religion in Egypt

Type T or F for your answer: All Egyptians were mummified.

Who was the god of the Underworld? Anubis or Osiris

Who was the god of embalming? Osiris or Anubis

Which organ was left in the body to be weighed in the Underworld?

During the New Kingdom, pharaohs were

• buried in pyramids

• buried in the Valley of the Kings

• cremated

One of the reasons Egyptians stopped building pyramids was

• grave robbers

• they ran out of stone

• all of the workers quit