This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of Ancient Civilizations has 30 clues. Answers range from 2 to 16 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.
What is a sudden rush of water; a downpour.
What is mineral salt found in dried lake beds, consisting of hydrated sodium carbonate.
What is a god or goddess (in a polytheistic religion).
What is the ancient Egyptian temple precinct located on the east bank of the Nile River in Thebes.
What is the ancient city in Egypt, whose ruins are situated on the Nile River about 10 miles south of Cairo.
A winged monster of Thebes, having a woman's head and a lion's body.
A person of noble rank or birth.
A stone pillar, typically having a square or rectangular cross section and a pyramidal top, set up as a monument or landmark.
A line of hereditary rulers of a country:
What is an ancient Egyptian tomb that store offerings.
The dead body of a human being or animal preserved by the ancient Egyptian process or some similar method of embalming.
A material prepared in ancient Egypt from the pithy stem of a water plant, used in sheets throughout the ancient Mediterranean world for writing or painting on.
A monumental structure with a square or triangular base and sloping sides that meet in a point at the top, especially one built of stone as a royal tomb in ancient Egypt.
A covered urn used in ancient Egyptian burials to hold the entrails from an embalmed body.
The belief in or worship of more than one god.
A valley near ancient Thebes in Egypt where the pharaohs of the New Kingdom were buried.
The soul of a dead person.
A stone coffin, typically adorned with a sculpture or inscription and associated with the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Rome, and Greece.
The belief that there is only one God.
An oval or oblong enclosing a group of Egyptian hieroglyphs, typically representing the name and title of a monarch.
A period of ancient Egyptian history (c. 2040–1640 bc, 11th–14th dynasty).
A collection of ancient Egyptian funerary texts from various periods.
Preserving (a corpse) from decay.
The period of ancient Egyptian history from around 2700 to 2150 bc.
An inscribed stone found near Rosetta on the western mouth of the Nile in 1799. Its text is written in three scripts: hieroglyphic, demotic, and Greek.
a period in the history of ancient Egypt, from the 18th to the 20th dynasty (approximately 1580 to 1090 bc).
A ruler in ancient Egypt.
The ancient Egyptian writing system that used picture symbols.
A triangle-shaped area of land made from soil deposited by a river.
What is the name for Ancient Egypt. It means: "black land", because of the fertile black soils of the Nile flood plains.