Ancient Egypt Vocabulary

first king who unified Upper and Lower Egypt

• Menes

• Pyramid

• Mummy

• Afterlife

most successful period of Egyptian history that took place from 1550 BCE to 1050 BCE

• New Kingdom

• Queen Hapshepsut

• Ramses the Great

• Hieroglyphics

ruler of Egypt

• Pharaoh

• Menes

• Pyramid

• Mummy

a large stone slab that was used to decode hieroglyphics

• Rosetta Stone

• Obelisk

• King Tut

• Nile River

most famous pharaoh of the Old Kingdom

• Khufu

• Middle Kingdom

• New Kingdom

• Queen Hapshepsut

a system of government ruled by religious leaders

• Theocracy

• Khufu

• Middle Kingdom

• New Kingdom

Egyptian writing system that used symbols for words or ideas

• Hieroglyphics

• Papyrus

• Rosetta Stone

• Obelisk

life after death

• Afterlife

• Old Kingdom

• Theocracy

• Khufu

a young pharaoh, also known as King Tutankhamen, whose tomb was not disturbed

• King Tut

• Nile River

• Upper Egypt

• Lower Egypt

a stone tomb with triangle-shaped sides that come together to form a point on top

• Pyramid

• Mummy

• Afterlife

• Old Kingdom