| A | B |
|---|
| civilization | a way of living |
| archaeologists | study ancient times and people |
| cuneiform | means "wedge-form" |
| pictograph | a picture sign that stands for a word |
| dikes | walls that hold back floodwater |
| irrigate | to bring water to |
| ziggurat | Sumerian temples |
| mummy | body treated for burial and wrapped in bandages |
| oasis | fertile land in the desert |
| silt | fine particles of soil carried in water |
| delta | built up land at a river's mouth |
| pharaohs | Egyptian kings |
| pyramids | tombs of the pharaohs |
| Coptic | an Egyptian language that is no longer used |
| hieroglyphics | Egyptian writing |
| papyrus | Egyptian writing material |
| scribes | had the job of writing letters |
| Howard Carter | discovered King Tut's tomb |
