Ancient Egypt
Name: ______________________ Date: ____________
Write the missing letters on the lines to finish each word.
3.
b
e
u
f
u
l
Delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration
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v
i
l
i
z
t
o
n
A society in an advanced state of social development
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u
r
a
l
The ritual placing of a corpse in a grave
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n
i
e
The world's longest river
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u
m
y
Informal terms for a mother
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e
t
a
A low triangular area of alluvial deposits where a river divides before entering a larger body
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o
m
b
A place for the burial of a corpse
12.
h
r
u
Egyptian solar god with the head of a falcon
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h
i
t
o
r
Study of what happened in the past
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p
h
i
n
An inscrutable person who keeps his thoughts and intentions secret
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h
i
e
r
o
g
y
p
h
A writing system using picture symbols (plural)
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p
y
r
m
i
A polyhedron having a polygonal base and triangular sides with a common vertex
19.
l
o
d
Light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam
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r
i
i
n
g
The act of creating written works
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g
i
a
An ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile opposite Cairo
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a
n
c
i
n
A very old person
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a
f
i
a
Continent with the Sahara desert
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g
p
t
i
a
s
The ancient and now extinct language of ___ under the Pharaohs (plural)