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Egypt
Chapter 3 Section 4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| hieroglyph | a kind of picture writing in which some pictures stand for ideas or things and others stand for sounds |
| papyrus | a type of paper made from reeds found in the marshy areas of the Nile delta |
| astronomer | a scientist who studies stars and other objects in the sky |
| Jean Francios Champollion | French scholar, first to discover the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphics |
| embalmer | a person who preserves a body to be buried |
| canopic jar | used by ancient Egyptians for storing and preserving body organs |
| artisan | a worker skilled in making things |
| Rosetta Stone | a stone tablet found in 1799, used to figure out the meaning of heiroglyphs |
| cartouche | an oval circle with a name written on it |
| anatomy | science that studies the structure of the body |