🅰️ Egypt Vocabulary Quiz

Papyrus

• a paper like material made from reed (tall, slender-leaved plant of the grass family, which grows in water or on marshy land)
• Egyptian writing system in which symbols or pictures are used to represent words or sounds
• A black stone slab that decoded the Ancient Egyptian language
• part of the mummification process (an old-fashioned method of preparing a dead body so that it doesn’t decay) in which the internal organs are removed and placed into these jars

Hieroglyphics

• Egyptian writing system in which symbols or pictures are used to represent words or sounds
• a building with 4 triangular sides meeting at a point, with a square base; where Pharaohs were buried
• ruler of Ancient Egypt
• part of the mummification process (an old-fashioned method of preparing a dead body so that it doesn’t decay) in which the internal organs are removed and placed into these jars

Pyramid

• Egyptian writing system in which symbols or pictures are used to represent words or sounds
• a building with 4 triangular sides meeting at a point, with a square base; where Pharaohs were buried
• A text that had a number of magic spells that were supposed to help a person in the afterlife
• A black stone slab that decoded the Ancient Egyptian language

Book of the Dead

• Egyptian writing system in which symbols or pictures are used to represent words or sounds
• a building with 4 triangular sides meeting at a point, with a square base; where Pharaohs were buried
• A text that had a number of magic spells that were supposed to help a person in the afterlife
• ruler of Ancient Egypt

Pharaohs

• Egyptian writing system in which symbols or pictures are used to represent words or sounds
• A text that had a number of magic spells that were supposed to help a person in the afterlife
• ruler of Ancient Egypt
• A black stone slab that decoded the Ancient Egyptian language

Rosetta Stone

• a paper like material made from reed (tall, slender-leaved plant of the grass family, which grows in water or on marshy land)
• Egyptian writing system in which symbols or pictures are used to represent words or sounds
• A black stone slab that decoded the Ancient Egyptian language
• part of the mummification process (an old-fashioned method of preparing a dead body so that it doesn’t decay) in which the internal organs are removed and placed into these jars

Canopic Jars

• a paper like material made from reed (tall, slender-leaved plant of the grass family, which grows in water or on marshy land)
• ruler of Ancient Egypt
• A black stone slab that decoded the Ancient Egyptian language
• part of the mummification process (an old-fashioned method of preparing a dead body so that it doesn’t decay) in which the internal organs are removed and placed into these jars