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| medicine | a discipline where Egypt excelled and became the world's first specialists |
| anatomy | the study of the structure of the body and its organs |
| artisan | a skilled worker who practices a handicraft |
| Black Land | what Egyptians called their country because of its fertile soil |
| Red Land | what Egyptians called the deserts surrounding their country |
| Giza | the site of the Great Pyramid on the west bank of the Nile |
| mummy | an embalmed or wrapped body |
| embalming | the process of preserving a dead body |
| Book of the Dead | a collection of spells and prayers studied by Egyptians to gain life after death |
| Memphis | the capital city of Old Egypt |
| deities | gods and goddesses |
| dynasty | a line of rulers from one family, passed from father to son |
| hieroglyphics | the Egyptian system of writing, made up of hundreds of picture symbols |
