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What is natron?
This chemical was used to dry dead bodies.
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What is 10 years?
It took a scribe approximately this long to memorize all the hieroglyphic signs.
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Who is Hathor, the cow goddess?
This is the Goddess of love and beauty.
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Who is Osiris?
This god was the first pharaoh of Egypt.
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What is the lungs?
Hapy, a baboon, was the stopper the canopic jar that stored this organ.
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What is the heart?
This organ was left in a mummy's body.
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What is the kit or palette?
This is the best-known symbol of a scribe.
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Who is Anubis?
This was the god of cemeteries and embalming.
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Who is Horus?
This is the name of Osiris' and Isis' son.
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What is the brain?
The Egyptians were certain that this organ was useless.
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What is 70 days?
This is the number of days it took to mummify the pharaoh.
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Who is Thoth?
Scribes kept a little statue of this God to protect them.
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Who is Horus?
This god was known as the sky god.
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Who is Set?
This god of storm and violence was jealous of Osiris.
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What is a sarcophagus?
This is another term for coffin.
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What is the weighing of the heart?
This was the most important moment in a mummy's life.
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Who is Imhotep?
This talented scribe was called the "Son of Ptah".
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Who is Mut?
This was the goddess of war.
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What is mummify?
This is what Isis did with all 14, or was it 42, pieces of Osiris
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What is the heart?
This is where all of a person's good and bad deeds for his/her lifetime were stored.
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What is an onion?
This was placed in a mummy's hand for his/her health.
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What is the step pyramid?
This is said to be Imhotep's greatest achievement.
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Who is Ammut?
This god is known as the "Devourer of the Dead."
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What is a kite?
This is the name of the bird that Isis changed into so she could collect all of Osiris' body pieces.
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Who is Duamutef, or a jackel?
The stomach was stored in a canopic jar with this animal on the stopper.
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