A scribe.

Advances in astronomy led to the world's firs practical calendar. Advances in medicine led to some of the world's first surgery.

A picture that stands for different word, letter, or sound.

Priests followed formal rituals, took care of the temple, cleaned sacred statues, changed the clothing on statues, and fed the statues meals.

New ideas and techniques in astronomy, geometry, medicine, and writing developed.

Hieroglyphs.

They were used to keep records, and they were written on tomb walls to describe people there.

A life that takes place in another world after death.

The belief in many gods. A happy afterlife.

Embalming.

An afterlife.

A paperlike material made from a reed of the same name.

A mummy.