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Ancient Egypt Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Ancient | Very old |
Antiquity | Ancient times or relating to the distant past |
Imhotep | The architect of the first Egyptian pyramid |
Lower Egypt | The northern half of Ancient Egypt leads to where the Nile River meets the Mediterranean Sea |
Menes | Pharaoh who united upper and lower Egypt |
Osiris | Egyptian god of the afterlife |
Rosetta Stone | special stone that had the same inscription written both in Greek and in Egyptian hieroglyphics. It was very helpful in translating and understanding hieroglyphics |
Horus | The falcon-headed Egyptian god who was the protector of pharaohs |
Ra | The Egyptian Sun god, also called “Re" |
Tomb | a building or room in which a dead body is placed |
Upper Egypt | The southern half of the kingdom of Egypt because the Nile River flows from Upper to Lower Egypt |
Isis | The Egyptian goddess of fertility, wife and sister of the god Osiris, mother of the falcon god Horus |