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Egypt Vocab 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| tomb | A large vault used for burying the dead. |
| Rosetta Stone | A small black stone containing the same message written in Egyptian hieroglyphics and in Greek which revealed the meaning of the hieroglyphics. |
| obelisk | A tall slender, four-sided stone pillar shaped from a single stone erected to honor famous people. |
| pharoah | Ancient Egyptian ruler. It means 'great house". |
| linen | A fabric woven from fibers of the flax plant popular in ancient Egypt. |
| crook and flail | Symbols reserved for the pharoah which stand for kingship and the fertility of the land. |
| scribe | A person who writes books or documents by hand in hieroglyphics, cuneiform or other scripts and may help keep track of records. |
| scroll | A long piece of paper that rolls around one or two cylinders and that usually has something written or drawn on it. |
| senet | A board game from predynastic and ancient Egypt |
| kilt | Egyptians wore tunic-like and robe-like garments made out of linen. |
| delta | a fertile area (usually fan-shaped) near the mouth of a river where it flows into the sea |
| dynasty | a series of rulers (over several generations) from a single family line |
| theocracy | a type of government run by a religious leader |
| embalm | the process of preserving a deceased person for the afterlife |
| archaeologist | a person who studies artifacts from the past |
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