Spirits of Ancient Egypt

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 5. Paper made from the ___ plant by cutting it in strips and pressing it flat (7)
  2. 6. An acute insufficiency (6)
  3. 8. To preserve a dead body (9)
  4. 9. Religious leader who leads worship (plural) (7)
  5. 13. An ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea (6)
  6. 15. The title of the ancient Egyptian kings (plural) (8)
  7. 16. Egyptian god of the underworld and judge of the dead (6)

Down

  1. 1. The creator and ruler worshipped in many faiths (plural) (4)
  2. 2. An ancient region of northeastern Africa on the Nile (5)
  3. 3. French playwright (6)
  4. 4. A massive monument with a square base and four triangular sides (plural) (8)
  5. 7. The state of being allied or confederated (plural) (9)
  6. 10. Country with pyramids and the Nile (5)
  7. 11. Egyptian solar god with the head of a falcon (5)
  8. 12. The rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land (plural) (6)
  9. 14. The world's longest river (4)