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| Hieroglyphics | The ancient Egyptian system of writing that used symbols to stand for objects, ideas, or sounds. |
| Rosetta Stone | A device written in three languages to help archaeologists decipher hieroglyphics. |
| Book of the Dead | Contained magic spells to help a person pass through the underworld. |
| Nile River | flowed South to North |
| Monotheism | A befief in one God |
| Polytheism | The belief in many gods and Goddesses. |
| Delta | This is a place at the mouth of a river where the river splits into smaller channels. In Egypt, this looks like a lotus flower. |
| Scribe | A professional writer who kept records and copied letters and official documents. |
| Myths | An unproved oe false collective belief that is used to justify a social institution. |
| Canopic Jars | Held the removed organs of a mummy. |
| Anubis (Weighing of the heart ceremony) | The ancient Egyptians believed that, when they died, they would be judged on their behavior during their lifetime before they could be granted a place in the Afterlife. The heart of the deceased was weighed to see if they qualified for a trip to the afterlife. |
| Mummy | The dead body of a human being or animal preserved by the ancient Egyptian process oe some similar method of embalming. |
| Pharaoh | The title used by the rulers od ancient Egypt. |
| Sphinx | A figure in Egyptian myth having the body of a lion and the head of a man, ram, or hawk. The Great Sphinx of Giza is a statue of a reclining lion with a human head that stands on the Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile. |
| Howard Carter | The archaeologist who discovered Tutankhamen's tomb in 1922. |
| Pyramids | Tombs |
| Papyrus | A kind of paper made from papyrus, a reed plant growing along the Nile, that the ancient Egyptians used for writing. |
| Sarcophagus | A large stone coffin |
| Akhenaten | The pharaoh who told Egyptians to believe in one god (monotheism). |
| Amulet | A charm or a piece of jewelry worn as a protection against evil. |
| Hatshepsut | One of the few women Egyptian pharaohs; organized a trade expedition to Egypt's southern neighbor, Punt. She became pharaoh when her husband died. |
| Gifts the Nile offered | Transportation, food, clothing |
