Ancient Egypt Vocabulary

A huge stone slab inscribed with hieroglyphics, Greek, and a later form of Egyptian that allowed historians to understand Egyptian writing.

• Scribe Stone

• Rosanne

• Rosetta Stone

• Cartouche

A ruler of ancient Egypt

• Vizier

• Sarcophagus

• Obelisk

• Pharoah

A large stone coffin

• Sarcophagus

• Cartouche

• Obelisk

• Mummy

A mythical Egyptian beast with the body of a lion and the head of a human.

• Sphinx

• Scarab

• Cartouche

• Ankh

A very large structure built to hide the pharaoh's tomb

• Pyramid

• Hieroglyphics

• Sarcophagus

• Papyrus

Type of beetle sacred to the Ancient Egyptians

• Scribe

• Cartouche

• Scarab

• Crook

A person who is skilled at making things by hand

• peasant

• craftsman

• scribe

• vizier

A person worked on farms, or as a servant

• Vizier

• Pharoah

• Scribe

• Peasant

A body that has been embalmed and wrapped in linen

• Scarab

• Mummy

• Scribe

• Cartouche

Someone who believes in more than one god.

• scribe

• peasant

• polytheist

• deity