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| cataract | a rock-filled rapid in a river |
| delta | the place at the mouth of a river where it splits into several streams to form an area shaped like a triangle |
| silt | rich, fertile soil deposited by the flooding of a river |
| pharaoh | the title of the kings of ancient Egypt |
| dynasty | a family of rulers |
| regent | someone who rules for a child until the child is old enough to rule |
| afterlife | the next life in which the dead are believed to live again |
| mummy | a dead body preserved in lifelike conditions |
| pyramid | a huge building with four sloping outside walls shaped like triangles built as royal tombs |
| hieroglyphs | a kind of picture writing in which some pictures stand for ideas or things and others stand for sounds |
| papyrus | an early form of paper made from a reedlike plant found in the marshy areas of the Nile delta |
| astronomer | a scientist who studies the stars and other objects in the sky |
| artisan | a worker who is especially skilled in making something such as baskets, leather goods, tools, jewelry, pottery, or clothes |
