- 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