Name: _____________           Hour: __

Ancient Egyptian Art Guided Notes

  1. Please write down today’s target statement:

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  1. What river runs through Egypt as its main water supply?

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  1.  ___________________ is a paper pulped from reed mainly used by scribes.

  1. A scribe was a scholar who could _______________ and ___________________.

  1. ___________________ were leaders believed to be half-human, half-god.

  1. Hieroglyphics are a writing system by the Egyptians that uses ___________________ and _____________________.

 

  1. What stone helped translate hieroglyphics? _________________________

 

  1. __________________ were tombs for pharaohs.

 

  1. ______________________________________________ is the only wonder of the world in existence today.

  1. The first pyramid was built for __________________________ and designed by __________________________, the earliest recorded artist.

  1.  Egyptians believed the soul or ____________, would need to use the body in the afterlife.

  1. Sculptural figures were _____________, ___________________, and _________________________.

  1. List the materials that could be found from the Nile:

  1.  An ankh was a symbol for ___________________.

  1. ________________ and charms protected the living and the dead from harm.

  1. These jars held the organs of a body removed during mummification. __________________________________________________.
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  3. The ___________________ was representative of the sun god Re.

  1.  _______________________ is a glass-like material with a blue-green color.

 

  1. Maat is the Egyptian __________________________________.

  1. Give me one characteristic for each god below:
  1. Anubis-

  1. Horus-

  1. Osiris-

  1. Re/Ra-

  1. Isis-

  1. Atum-

  1. Thoth-

  1. Seth-

25. The Book of the Dead was a collection of stories about people who died. True or False.