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Gods and People
Gods, Goddesses, and People in Ancient Egypt
Term | Definition |
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Akhenaten | pharaoh who began a monotheistic religion worshiping Aten; husband to Nefertiti; father of Tutankhamun |
Anubis | Egyptian god of the dead, funerals, and embalming |
Cleopatra VII | last pharaoh of Egypt, tried to maintain power by creating alliances with Rome |
Horus | Egyptian god of vengeance and the sky, son of Osiris and Isis |
Isis | Egyptian goddess of magic, marriage, protection, and healing; wife of Osiris; mother of Horus |
Khufu | pharaoh who ordered the building of the Great Pyramid in Giza |
Ma'at | Egyptian goddess of of justice, truth and order |
Menes | first pharaoh, combined Upper and Lower Egypt |
Nefertiti | wife of Akhenaten, mother of Tutankhamun; a bust of her head is one of the most copied works in Ancient Egypt |
Osiris | Egyptian god of the underworld and the afterlife; husband to Isis; father of Horus |
Ra | Egyptian sun god |
Tutankhamen | boy pharaoh whose intact tomb was discovered in 1922 by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon |