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Pharaho | A king of ancient Egypt, considered a god as well as a political & military leader. |
Dynasty | A series of rulers from the same family. |
Afterlife | Life after death. |
Mummy | A body dried, preserved, and wrapped for burial. |
Pyramid | Huge stone tombs with four triangle shaped walls that met in a point on top. |
Hieroglyphics | An ancient Egyptian writing system in which pictures were used to represent ideas and sounds. |
Rosetta Stone | Stone that contained carved messages in hieroglyphics, Greek and demotic. Led to deciphering of hieroglyphics. |
Papyrus | A tall reed that grows in the Nile delta, used by the ancient Egyptians to make a paper-like material for writing on. |
Sarcophagus | A stone coffin. |
Vizier | The chief advisor to the Egyptian pharaoh. |
Cataracts | A large waterfall or steep rapids. |
Upper Egypt | The southern part of ancient Egypt. |
Lower Egypt | The northern region of ancient Egypt, named so because it was located downriver with the Nile's flow. |