The Ancient Egyptian Glossary can help you understand some of the terms associated with Egyptian history. Learn key terms to better understand this influential age of history.
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Imhotep, an Egyptian statesman, architect, and physician. He lived about 2650 B.C.Imhotep was counselor to Pharaoh Djoser during the Third Dynasty of the Old Kingdom.
See more »Khufu the Egyptian pharaoh who built the Great Pyramid near Giza. The Greeks called him Cheops.
See more »Memphis, Egypt, an ancient city on the west bank of the Nile River, 14 miles (23 km) south of the site of Cairo.
See more »Mummy, the body of a dead person or animal that has been preserved indefinitely, especially by embalming methods.
See more »Nefertiti, or Nefretete, both, or Nofretete, an Egyptian queen living in the 14th century B.C.
See more »Obelisk, a tall, four-sided stone shaft that gradually tapers to a pyramidal point at the top.
See more »Pharaoh, the title by which the kings of ancient Egypt were known. The term was derived from Egyptian for “great house.” According to mythology, the pharaohs were descended from gods; then they came to be regarded as gods themselves, and great temples were built for their worship.
See more »Plagues of Egypt, in the Bible, the succession of calamities that God inflicted on the Egyptians to win freedom for the Israelite slaves.
See more »Pyramids, massive structures with four triangular sides that meet at the top in a point.
See more »Ramses (or Rameses) II, a pharaoh of the 19th dynasty of ancient Egypt. He reigned about 1299-1232 B.C.
See more »Rosetta Stone, a slab of black basalt that provided scholars with their first key to ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic writing.
See more »Scarab , a black beetle. It is also called the Egyptian sacred scarab because it is believed to be the beetle held sacred by the ancient Egyptians.
See more »Sphinx, a mythical creature, part human and part animal, common in the art and mythology of several early civilizations.
See more »Thebes, a leading city of ancient Egypt from the 21st to the 11th century B.C. The Egyptians called this city Waset; the name “Thebes” was given it by the Greeks.
See more »Thutmose, or Thothmes, the name of four pharaohs (rulers) of Dynasty XVIII of ancient Egypt.
See more »Tutankhamen, a pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt, reigning from about 1361 to 1352 B.C.
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