DIRECTIONS: Using the site called Pharaonic Egypt choose the topics which you think will answer the questions in your treasure chest. Write the answers in complete sentences on a piece of notebook paper and share them with your group.

1. What are the dates of the Archaic Period? What important change took place during this time?
2. What does "hieroglyphics" mean? Where does the word come from? (What people?)
3. Make a Venn diagram comparing modern time with Ancient Egyptian time. Include the following:
   1. Hours in the day
   2. When the day began
   3. Number of days in a year
   4. Length of the hours in a day
   5. Use of leap year
4. What were mastabas? What were they used for and who used them?
5. Who was Hatshepsut?

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