Egypt Flocabulary Vocabulary

Egyptians would ___ their dead, embalming and drying corpses and wrapping them in linen.

• Mummify

• Pyramid

• Dynasty

What word goes best with the image?

• Sphinx

• Pyramid

• Pharaoh

Sand, soil, mud and other small particles that sink to the bottom of bodies of water.

• Silt

• Dynasty

• Hieroglyphics

A family of rulers that are in power in a country; the period of time when a country is led by members of the same family.

• Pyramid

• Dynasty

• Hieroglyphics

A form of written language, particularly that of the ancient Egyptians, where symbols represent things.

• Silt

• Dynasty

• Hieroglyphics

Identify the object in the image.

• Sphinx

• Pyramid

• Hieroglyphics

Identify the object in the image.

• Sphinx

• Nile

• Rosetta Stone

King Tut, a famous ___ of Egypt, ruled for nine years.

• Pharaoh

• Dynasty

• Silt

Ancient Egyptians often wrote on ___, which was made from a plant of the same name.

• Papyrus

• Parchment

• Vellum

• Canvas

A tablet with inscriptions of the same decree written three ways: in Greek, Egyptian hieroglyphics and demotic characters. It was discovered in 1799 near Rosetta, Egypt, and made it possible for historians to translate hieroglyphics for the first time.

• Sphinx

• Nile

• Rosetta Stone