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Ancient Egypt KS2 Knowledge Mat

Subject Specific Vocabulary Egyptian Artefacts

archaeologist People who work out our history by looking scarab
at artefacts that have been found.
sphinx
pharaohs The word pharaoh originally meant ‘great Sticky Egyptian
tombs house’, but came to mean the person who knowledge death
resided in it mask
pyramid ? Cleopatra was the last pharaoh of
hieroglyphs Ancient Egypt is known for its magnificent Egypt before the Romans took over. Exciting books
vizier and beautiful tombs. The most well known
are within the pyramids in the Valley of the ? Tutankhamen was Known as the boy
Kings king, famous because his tomb was
found in 1922.
A geometrical term that refers to part of the
burial complexes for Egyptian pharaohs. ? Egyptian men and women wore
make-up.
The term hieroglyph refers to the fact that it
is carving for sacred things, but hieroglyphs ? The Egyptians were the first civilization
were also written on papyrus. to invent writing.

The vizier in ancient Egypt was the most
powerful position after that of king. A vizier
was the equivalent of the modern-day
prime minister

scribe A scribe recorded in writing the everyday
life and extraordinary happenings in
ancient Egypt.

sarcophagus Sarcophagus is a Greek word meaning
mummy flesh-eating and refers to the mummy case.

papyrus Remains of a body found inside the carved
scarab and brilliantly painted burial case known as
a sarcophagus

An Egyptian plant whose reeds are slit and
placed in layers in order to form a paper

Scarabs are amulets formed to look like the
dung beetle, an animal associated, by the
ancient Egyptians, with life, rebirth, and the
sun god Re.

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