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| To make into a mummy by embalming and drying. |
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| A Semitic people who invaded Egypt and ruled it during the 17th and 16th centuries b.c. They introduced the horse and chariot into Egypt. |
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| King of Egypt during the XVIII Dynasty. His tomb was found almost intact by Howard Carter in 1922. |
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| letters or symbols that are written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language |
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| A basalt tablet bearing inscriptions in Greek and in Egyptian hieroglyphic and demotic scripts that was discovered in 1799 near Rosetta. |
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| The ancient Egyptian sun god, the supreme deity represented as a man with the head of a hawk crowned with a solar disk and uraeus |
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| Very high governmaent official in ancient Egypt. |
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| 4th dynasty pharaoh who bilt the great pyramid of Giza. |
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| Queen of Egypt (1503-1482) who on the death of her husband, Thutmose II (c. 1504), became regent for her son Thutmose III. |
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| His reign was marked by war with the Hittites and the construction of many colossal monuments, esp the rock temple at Abu Simbel |
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| a cursive form of Egyptian hieroglyphics; used especially by the priests |
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| The ancient Egyptian god whose annual death and resurrection personified the self-renewing vitality and fertility of nature |
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| God of desert storms,darkness. |
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| A city of northern Egypt, an industrial suburb of Cairo on the Nile River. |
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| King of Egypt who rejected the old gods and initiated a monotheistic worship of the sun-god Aton. |
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| Egyptian queen noted for her beauty and charisma. |
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| Pre dynastic Pharaoh of ancient Egypt. |
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| Acient egyption concept of truth,balance,order,morality and justice. |
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| reign of Egypt from 3407 to 3346 B.C. was treated as the dawn of Egyptian civilization in many classical histories |
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