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| Rosetta Stone | Stone with message carved in heiroglyphics, demotic, and Greek |
| Menes | The first pharaoh of a united Egypt |
| Book of the Dead | Most important Egyptian work of literature |
| Anwar el-Sadat | Egyptian president who negotiated the Camp David Accords |
| Nile | the world's longest river |
| hieroglyphics | ancient Egyptian writing |
| nomes | small states in ancient Egypt |
| Suez canal | important canal finished in 1869 |
| Mizraim | most ancient name for Egypt |
| Tutankhamen | teenage pharaoh's tomb discovered in 1922 |
| Kemet | "black" |
| Herodotus | Greek "father of history" who called Egypt the "gift of the Nile" |
| Nile Delta | rich alluvial plain of fertile soil |
| Hyksos | Asiatic warriors who brought the Egyptian Middle Kingdom to an end |
| Memphis | important ancient Egyptian city known as Noph in the Hebrew Bible |
| pyramid | Stuctures that best symbolize the Egyptian concept of state and society |
| necropolis | "city of the dead" |
| Cairo | Capial of Egypt today |
| Great Pyramid of Cheops | One of the wonders of the world |
| Hatshepsut | Only female pharaoh of Egypt |
