Egypt presentations

• Sphinx represents lion and Pharaoh 
• built as tombs for the pharaohs and queens
• chambers- grand gallery
• queen's chamber
• underground chamber
• Hieroglyphs- formal writing system used by Egyptians 
• people who wrote them were called scribes
• Ideogram
• phonographs
• pictograph
• over 2,000 different symbols 
• Nile- 
• longest rivers in the world
• main river
• name from the Greek word "Nelios"
• 4184 miles in length
• ability to produce extremely fertile soil
• also used for drinking water