Ancient Egypt

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. A polyhedron having a polygonal base and triangular sides with a common vertex (7)
  2. 7. Egyptian solar god with the head of a falcon (5)
  3. 10. A writing system using picture symbols (plural) (13)
  4. 13. Paper made from the ___ plant by cutting it in strips and pressing it flat (7)
  5. 15. To preserve a dead body (9)
  6. 16. An inscrutable person who keeps his thoughts and intentions secret (6)

Down

  1. 1. Large voracious aquatic reptile having a long snout with massive jaws and sharp teeth and a body (9)
  2. 2. The world's longest river (4)
  3. 4. A place for the burial of a corpse (4)
  4. 5. A body embalmed and dried and wrapped for burial (plural) (7)
  5. 6. Massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa (12)
  6. 8. The ancient and now extinct language of ___ under the Pharaohs (8)
  7. 9. The Pakistan intelligence agency (plural) (4)
  8. 11. A sequence of powerful leaders in the same family (7)
  9. 12. Egyptian god of the underworld and judge of the dead (6)
  10. 14. Place of worship consisting of an edifice for the worship of a deity (6)