A | B |
Abu Simbel | twin temple |
Valley of the Kings | area where kings and pharoahs were buried |
The Great Pyramid | made for king khufu |
The Sphinx | women's head |
Saqqara | oldest standing step pyramid |
delta | Triangular marshy land, mouth of river |
cataract | large bolder, granite rock in river causing rapids |
recede | to go back |
papyrus | reed that grows in the Nile Delta used to make the first paper |
Upper Egypt | Southern Egypt |
Lower Egypt | Northern Egypt |
Shaduf | ancient tool used for irrigation to water fields |
Silt | rich top soil left behind by the Nile |