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Ancient Egypt andNB
Ancient egypt and Nubia
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a scientist who studies the stars and other in the sky | astronomer |
| a triangular -shaped plain at the mouth of a river formed when sediment is deposited by flowing water | delta |
| Curse | "They who enter this sacred tomb shall swift be visited by wings of death." discovered in Tutankhamun's tomb |
| Greek author who traveled throughout the known world; wrote about the wars between Greece and Persia in the History, the first major historical work of ancient times | Herodotus |
| a rapids or waterfall in a river | Cataract |
| Abu Simbel | set of two temples near the border of Egypt with Sudan |
| Cleopatra | is by far one of the most ever famous queens of all times in ancient Egypt |
| Nile Delta | supplies the majority of Egypt's crops today to feed Egypt's people |
| Howard Carter | Howard Carter (9 May 1874 – 2 March 1939) was an English archaeologist and Egyptologist, noted as a primary discoverer of the tomb of Tutankhamun. |
| Horus | Horus is one of the oldest and most significant deities in the Ancient Egyptian religion, who was worshipped from at least the late Predynastic period through to Greco-Roman times. |
| Motif | In the textile arts, a motif (pronunciation) (help·info) (also called a block or square) is a smaller element in a much larger work. In knitting and crochet, motifs are made one at a time and joined together to create larger works such as afghan blankets |
| Kerma | strength had created a backbone for the Nubian people to eventually challenge the great might of the Ancient Egyptians |
| Sphinx | is usually a head of a king wearing his headdress and the body of a lion |
| Papyrus | is the ancient Egyptians invention for writing paper, and it was the most important writing material in the ancient world |
| Nubia | is the region in the south of Egypt, along the Nile and in northern Sudan |
| Senet | an Egyptian race game and may be the ancestor of our modern backgammon |
| Canopic jars | were used by the ancient Egyptian during the rituals of mummification processes |
| Mummy | In order to ensure that the body was preserved the Ancient Egyptians began to use a process called mummification. This involved embalming the body and then wrapping it in thin strips of linen. |
| Khutu | commonly known as Cheops, ruled in the 4th Dynasty ... His most known and famous undertaking was the Great Pyramid of Egypt |
| Memphis | used to denote the city that lay on the border between Upper |
| Lower Egypt | The terminology "Upper" and "Lower" derives from the flow of the Nile from the highlands of East Africa northwards to the Mediterranean Sea. So Upper Egypt lies to the south of Lower Egypt. |
| Upper Egypt | an area in ancient Egypt in the Nile Valley, South of the river's delta and the 30th northern parallel |
| Giza | The three largest and best |
| Cartouche | an oval plaque representing the birth name of pharaohs, queens and other persons of high standing |
| Ankh | the symbol (the actual Hieroglyphic sign) of life but it is an enduring icon that remains with us even today |
| Lower Nubia | an ancient region in northern Africa extending from the Nile Valley in Egypt to present-day Sudan,specifically, between the first and second Nile cataracts |
| Wedjat eye | A pair of Wedjat eyes on a coffin or tomb were used to protect the dead against the evil eye |
| Rosetta Stone | is a stone with writing on it in two languages (Egyptian and Greek), using three scripts (hieroglyphic, demotic and Greek). |
| Sarcophagus | a stone container that usually houses a coffin and an Egyptian mummy |
| Amenhotep married a lady of non | royal blood, Nefertiti |
| Karnak | he Karnak Temple Complex—usually called Karnak—comprises a vast conglomeration of ruined temples, chapels, pylons, and other buildings, notably the Great Temple of Amen and a massive structure begun by Pharaoh Ramses II (ca. 1391–1351 BC). An ancient sacr |
| Thutmose III | stepson of Hatshepsut; considered the greatest pharaoh of the new kingdom of egypt; reigned from 1497 to 1426 B.C.; expanded the empire to include syria and Nubia |
| Ramses the Great | Ramesses II (also known as Ramesses the Great and alternatively transcribed as Ramses and Rameses *Riʕmīsisu; also known as Ozymandias in the Greek sources, from a transliteration into Greek of a part of Ramesses' throne name, User-maat-re Setep-en-re)[5] |
| Hatshepsut | step mother of Thutmose III; ruled Egypt as regent and then as pharaoh achieved econmic success, especially in trade |
| Aswan Dam | The Aswan Dam is the general name for two dams, both of which are situated across the Nile River in Aswan, Egypt. Since the 1950s, the name commonly refers to the High Dam, which is the larger and newer of the two. |
| Suez Canal | The Suez Canal is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. |
| embalming | Embalming, in most modern cultures, is the art and science of temporarily preserving human remains to forestall decomposition and to make them suitable for public display at a funeral. |
| Hieroglyphics | a kind of picture writing in which some pictures stand for ideas or things and others stand for sounds |
| archaeology | Archaeology, or archeology (from Greek ἀρχαιολογία, archaiologia – ἀρχαῖος, arkhaīos, "ancient"; and -λογία, -logiā, "-logy"), is the study of past human societies, primarily through the recovery and analysis of the material culture and environmental data |
| faience | Faience or faïence is the conventional name in English for fine tin-glazed pottery on a delicate pale buff body, associated with Faenza in northern Italy.[1] The invention of a white pottery glaze suitable for painted decoration, by the addition of an oxi |
| Luxor | Luxor (in Arabic: الأقصر al-Uqṣur) is a city in Upper (southern) Egypt and the capital of Luxor Governorate. The population numbers 376,022 (1999 survey), with an area of approximately 416 square kilometres (161 sq mi). |
| excavation | Excavation is best known and most commonly used within the science of archaeology |
| Akhenaten | king of ancient egypt . intoduced monotheism; under Akhenaton Egypt lost much of its provincial territories |
| relief sculpture | A relief is a sculptured artwork where a modelled form is raised, or, in a sunken-relief, lowered, from a plane from which the main elements of the composition project (or sink). |
| Thebes | Thebes, Egypt – Thebes of the Hundred Gates; one-time capital of the New Kingdom of Egypt Thebes, Greece, Boeotia Prefecture Ancient Thebes (Boeotia) ( |
| Tutankhamen | (1341 BC – 1323 BC) was an Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty (ruled c.1333 BC – 1323 BC in the conventional chronology), during the period of Egyptian history known as the New Kingdom. His original name, Tutankhaten, means "Living Image of Aten", while |
| Alexandria | ancient Hellenistic city in Egypt |
| alabaster | Alabaster is a name applied to varieties of two distinct minerals: gypsum (a hydrous sulfate of calcium) and calcite (a carbonate of calcium). The former is the alabaster of the present day; generally, the latter is the alabaster of the ancients. |
| Kush | Kingdom of Kush, an ancient nation in northeastern Africa comprising large areas within present-day Egypt and Sudan |
| silt | rich ,fertile soil deposited by the flooding of a river |
| divine | the concept of divinity, related to holiness and the supernatura |
| Menes | founder of the first egyptian dynasty;unified Upper and Lower Egypt to Canaan; according to the a bible he received the Ten Commandments from God |
| Senusret | Senusret I (also Sesostris I and Senwosret I) was the second pharaoh of the Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt. He ruled from 1971 BC to 1926 BC, and was one of the most powerful kings of this Dynasty. |
| afterlife | the next life in which the dead are believed to live again |
| mummification | A mummy is a corpse whose skin and organs have been preserved by either intentional or incidental exposure to chemicals, extreme coldness, very low humidity, or lack of air when bodies are submerged in bogs |
| Napata | one of the three most powerful Nubian kingdoms; located between the third and fourth cataracts of the Nile River in Upper Nubia |
| Amun | Amun, reconstructed Egyptian Yamānu (also spelled Amon, Amoun, Amen, and rarely Imen, Greek Ἄμμων Ammon, and Ἅμμων Hammon), was a deity in Egyptian mythology and Berber Mythology who in the form of Amun-Ra became the focus of the most complex system of th |
| stela | The Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act of 2010 or STELA is a part of the American Workers, State, and Business Relief Act of 2010 (H.R. 4213), a bill in the 111th United States Congress, intended to renew the Satellite Home Viewer Extension a |
| Meroe | a city of ancient Nubia in present-day Sudan |
| scarab beetle | The family Scarabaeidae as currently defined consists of over 30,000 species of beetles worldwide. The species in this large family are often called scarabs or scarab beetles. |
| regent | someone who rules for a child until the child is old enough to rule |
| pharaoh | the title of the kings of Ancient Eypt |
| Khufu (Cheops) | Khufu (in Greek known as Χέοψ, Cheops, pronounced /ˈhɛɒps/; according to Manetho, Σοῦφις, Suphis) was a Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt's Old Kingdom |
| Khafre | Khafra (Greek, Χεφρήν; Chephren) — also Khafre — was an Egyptian pharaoh of the Fourth dynasty, who had his capital at Memphis. |
| Menkare | Menkaura (or Men-Kau-Re; Mycerinus in Latin; Μυκερινος Mykerinos in Greek) was a pharaoh of the Fourth dynasty of Egypt (c. 2620 BC–2480 BC) who ordered the construction of the third and smallest of the Pyramids of Giza |
| amulet | An amulet (from Latin amuletum; earliest extant use in Naturalis Historia [Pliny], meaning "an object that protects a person from trouble"), a close cousin of the talisman (from Arabic طلاسم tilasm, ultimately from Greek telesma or from the Greek word "te |
| Lapis lazuli | Lapis lazuli (pronounced /ˈlæpɪs ˈlæzjʉlaɪ/ or /ˈlæzjʉli/ LAP-iss LAZ-ew-lye/lee[1]) (sometimes abbreviated to lapis) is a relatively rare, semi-precious stone that has been prized since antiquity for its intense blue color. |
| limestone | Limestone is a sedimentary rock composed largely of the mineral calcite (calcium carbonate: CaCO3). Like most other sedimentary rocks, limestones are composed of grains; however, most grains in limestone grains are skeletal fragments of marine organisms s |
| dynasty | a series of rulers from the same family |
| Old Kingdom | the early part of the Stone Age during which people learned to hunt in groups discovered how to use fire and became nomads |
| Middle Kingdom | the middle time period of the groups who runs a store of Egyptian dynastis |
| New Kingdom | the latest time period of the groups of Egyptian dyansties |
| Shawabti | The ushabti (also called shabti or shawabti, with a number of variant spellings) were funerary figurines used in Ancient Egypt. |
| pyramid | a huge building with four sloping outside walls shaped like triangles; Egypt, pyramids were built as royal tombs |
| mastaba | A mastaba is a type of Ancient Egyptian tomb in the form of a flat-roofed, rectangular structure with outward sloping sides that marked the burial site of many eminent Egyptians of Egypt's ancient period. Mastabas were constructed out of mud-bricks or sto |
| Saqqara | Saqqara (or Sakkara, Saqqarah; Arabic: سقارة) is a vast, ancient burial ground in Egypt, serving as the necropolis for the Ancient Egyptian capital, Memphis. Saqqara features numerous pyramids, including the world famous Step pyramid of Djoser, sometimes |
| El Amarna | The site of Amarna (commonly known as el-Amarna or incorrectly as Tel el-Amarna; see below) (Arabic: العمارنة al-‘amārnah) is located on the east bank of the Nile River in the modern Egyptian province of Minya, some 58 km (38 miles) south of the city of |
| Lord Carnarvon | Earl of Carnarvon is a title that has been created three times in British history. The first creation came in the Peerage of England in 1628 in favour of Robert Dormer, 2nd Baron Dormer. For more information on this creation, which became extinct in 1709, |
| Ptolemy | king cleopatra his ascension to the throne is recored on the Rosetta Stone |
| Tahrak | prince of Nubia; became king of Nubia and Egypt in 690b.c |
| Dr. Zahi Hawass | Zahi Hawass (Arabic: زاهي حواس; born 28 May 1947) is an Egyptian archaeologist, an Egyptologist and the current Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities.[1] He has also worked at archaeological sites in the Nile Delta, the Western |
| British Museum | The British Museum is a museum of human history and culture in London. Its collections, which number more than seven million objects,[2] are amongst the largest and most comprehensive in the world and originate from all continents, illustrating and docume |
| Louvre | The Musée du Louvre (French pronunciation: [myze dy luvʁ]), or officially the Grand Louvre — in English, the Louvre Museum or Great Louvre, or simply the Louvre — is one of the world's largest museums, the most visited museum in the world, and a historic |
| Metropolitan Museum | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, known colloquially as The Met, is an art museum located on the eastern edge of Central Park, along what is known as Museum Mile in New York City, United States, North America. It has a permanent collection containing more t |
| Book of the Dead | The "Book of the Dead" is the usual name given to the ancient Egyptian funerary text called the "Spells of Coming (or Going) Forth By Day." The Book of the Dead was intended to assist the deceased in the afterlife and comprised a collection of hymns, spel |
| Thoth | Thoth[1] was considered one of the more important deities of the Egyptian pantheon. |
| Isis | Isis (Ancient Greek: Ἶσις) was a goddess in Ancient Egyptian religious beliefs, whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. |
| Osiris | Osiris (Ancient Greek: Ὄσιρις, also Usiris; the Egyptian language name is variously transliterated Asar, Asari, Aser, Ausar, Ausir, Wesir, Usir, Usire or Ausare) was an Egyptian god, usually called the god of the Afterlife, underworld or dead. |
| Nubia | a desert region and ancient kingdom in the site of present-side southern Egypt and nothern sudan |
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