Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs Trivia Word Search

Ramesses II carved two colossal rock temples into a cliff at _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _, later cut apart and moved to escape rising floodwaters.

This Sixth Dynasty king took the throne as a small child and is traditionally, if debatably, credited with the longest reign in history.

Ahmose I blockaded and besieged this Hyksos capital in the eastern Delta before finally overrunning it.

Alone among more than a dozen rulers of her Greek-descended line, Cleopatra bothered to learn the native language spoken by the common people she ruled.

Against his own generals' advice, Thutmose III marched his army through this narrow, dangerous mountain pass on the way to his victory over the Canaanite coalition.

Ancient Egyptians loved a tale about a fictional courtier who fled the country after overhearing news of Amenemhat I's assassination, only to spend his exile abroad longing for home.

Crowned at just five years old, Ptolemy V later took the epithet _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _, meaning roughly 'the god made manifest.'

Cleopatra's son by Julius Caesar was known as _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _, meaning roughly 'little Caesar.'

As a young prince, Thutmose IV supposedly dreamed that the half-buried Great Sphinx promised him kingship if he cleared away its sand; he recorded the story on a slab called the Dream _ _ _ _ _.

A harem conspiracy against Ramesses III sought to place one of his sons on the throne in place of the rightful heir; the plotters were forced to take their own lives once the plot was uncovered.

The British archaeologist who spent years digging with funding from Lord Carnarvon finally found Tutankhamun's nearly intact tomb in the Valley of the Kings in November 1922.

Amenhotep III's chief wife, mother of his rebellious successor, came from a powerful non-royal family and appears seated beside her husband in several colossal statue groups.

A career army commander under two earlier kings, this pharaoh ended the Eighteenth Dynasty and installed his own vizier as successor.

Carved from the Giza bedrock, the Great _ _ _ _ _ _ is often credited to Khafre's reign, partly because its face resembles his own statues.

Soldiers serving this French general stumbled on a trilingual inscribed slab near a Nile Delta town in 1799.

The only surviving portrait of Khufu confirmed by inscription is a tiny statuette found at Abydos, carved from a costly material sourced from elephant tusks.

The Step Pyramid at Saqqara was built for this Third Dynasty king, whose Horus name was Netjerikhet.

Discovered nearly untouched in 1922, this boy pharaoh's short reign made him far more famous in death than in life; today he's known simply as King _ _ _.

Thutmose III's most celebrated victory, after a risky mountain march through a narrow pass, came at a Canaanite city whose very name later gave rise to the biblical word 'Armageddon.'

Hatshepsut's legendary trading expedition sailed far down the Red Sea coast to a distant, half-mythical land, returning laden with myrrh trees and incense.

This female pharaoh closed out the Nineteenth Dynasty after ruling as regent for the boy king Siptah.

Cleopatra's rival brother and co-ruler drowned in this river after his forces were crushed by Julius Caesar's army.

Ramesses II's own mortuary temple at Thebes is known today by the name '_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.'

Khufu's father experimented with pyramid design more than any other king, ultimately raising three separate pyramids in a single reign.

Ptolemy I also began construction of one of the ancient world's seven wonders: a towering lighthouse rising from a small island just off Alexandria's harbor.

Khufu's son built the second pyramid on that famous Giza plateau and, many scholars believe, commissioned the great limestone guardian statue nearby.

Taharqa raised Nubia's largest royal pyramid at this site.

In the 1960s, engineers relocated the rock temples at Abu Simbel to escape flooding from the new High Dam at _ _ _ _ _.

Partway up, the slope of Sneferu's pyramid at Dahshur suddenly grows shallower, earning it the nickname the '_ _ _ _' Pyramid.

Long before ruling a reunited Egypt, Mentuhotep II governed only from Upper Egypt's leading city on the Nile's east bank.

Rather than build beside his father at Giza, one of Khufu's sons raised his pyramid eight kilometers away at Abu Rawash, and was the first king to link his royal name with the sun god Ra.

In 1860, a French archaeologist digging in Khafre's own Giza valley temple uncovered nearly two dozen statues of the king in a single sealed chamber.

Buried in pieces beside Khufu's pyramid, his dismantled funerary boat was built from a fine imported wood, prized by Egyptian shipwrights and shipped in from the forests of Lebanon rather than felled locally.

Two of Sneferu's experimental pyramids still stand together at this royal necropolis south of Saqqara.

Sneferu's first large pyramid attempt suffered a partial collapse after its smooth outer limestone casing gave way.

Worshipped as a living god in his own lifetime, this warrior-king pushed Egypt's southern border deep into Nubia.

After finally reuniting Egypt, Mentuhotep II adopted a new throne name meaning roughly 'he who unites the Two Lands.'

The king who founded the Twentieth Dynasty seized power amid civil chaos at the end of the Nineteenth, then had his workers usurp Twosret's tomb and erase her memory.

Ramesses II's peace treaty, the oldest surviving one in the world, was signed with the Hittite king _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.

The thirteenth son of Ramesses II, this pharaoh finally inherited the throne in his own fifties.

Akhenaten's new desert capital, built midway between Memphis and Thebes, lies in ruins today near a village that lends its modern name to his whole revolutionary era.

A Kushite pharaoh had priests copy an ancient account of the god Ptah's role in creation onto a stone slab, later damaged when it was reportedly used as a millstone before finally reaching the British Museum.

One pharaoh's religious revolution set aside Egypt's traditional many gods in favor of devotion centered on a single sun disk called the _ _ _ _.

This reunifying pharaoh's name honors the war god Montu, completed by the ancient word for 'satisfied': '_ _ _ _ _.'

This Twenty-sixth Dynasty king began, but never completed, a canal linking the Nile to the Red Sea.

Ptolemy I, one of Alexander the Great's own generals, took the epithet '_ _ _ _ _,' meaning 'Savior,' once he became king of Egypt.

After Julius Caesar's death, Cleopatra formed a political and romantic partnership with the Roman general Mark _ _ _ _ _ _.

Amenhotep II, son and successor of Thutmose III, boasted that he could shoot an arrow clean through a copper target a palm thick.

A stele raised by Merneptah contains the earliest known Egyptian mention of a people called _ _ _ _ _ _.

This king's Palette, unearthed in 1898 at Hierakonpolis, shows him wearing the crowns of both Upper and Lower Egypt on its two faces.

Ahmose I's long campaign finally expelled these foreign rulers of the eastern Nile Delta after a lengthy siege of their capital city.

According to popular legend, Cleopatra ended her own life by letting a small venomous snake bite her, a method later immortalized in countless paintings and plays.

Ramesses II's father spent his reign restoring order after the religious upheavals of Akhenaten's era, campaigning in Canaan, Libya, and Nubia.

Ramesses III's Year 8 victory came against a mysterious wave of raiders still known today as the Sea '_ _ _ _ _ _ _.'

In his eighth year on the throne, Ramesses III crushed a seaborne invasion at the decisive Battle of the _ _ _ _ _.

Egypt's last native-born ruler before Persian reconquest fled south to Nubia after his defeat in 342 BC.

Ptolemy V's coronation, after a chaotic boyhood reign, was commemorated by a trilingual inscription now called the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Stone.

Sobekneferu, Egypt's first confirmed female king, completed her father's vast funerary complex at Hawara, a maze of halls so famous that later Greek visitors nicknamed it after the mythical prison built for the Minotaur.

Ramesses II's name, like every pharaoh's, was written inside a protective oval frame whose rope-like border was believed to encircle and guard everything the sun encompassed.

Two enormous seated statues nicknamed for a Greek hero, the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ of Memnon, once flanked Amenhotep III's ruined mortuary temple.

Horemheb, a former general who became pharaoh, built new gateways at Thebes' greatest temple complex using stone blocks recycled from a heretic predecessor's demolished monuments.

Piye ruled his Nubian homeland from this city before marching north to conquer Egypt.

Sometimes nicknamed the 'Napoleon of Egypt,' this pharaoh led roughly seventeen victorious military campaigns abroad and vastly expanded Egypt's empire.

Presiding over Egypt's wealthiest, most cosmopolitan era, this pharaoh was worshipped as a living god in his own lifetime.

At Karnak, Hatshepsut raised towering obelisks cut from single blocks of pink stone quarried far south at Aswan; one still stands as Egypt's tallest.

Tutankhamun's wife and half-sister carried a name beginning '_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _,' before the ending that honored the god Amun.

The last active pharaoh of Egypt allied with, and had children by, two of Rome's most powerful generals.

A former vizier with no royal blood at all founded the Twelfth Dynasty and moved Egypt's capital to a brand-new city called Itjtawy.

Hatshepsut ruled under the throne name '_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _,' meaning roughly 'truth is the soul of the sun god.'

An aged former vizier who married Tutankhamun's widow ruled Egypt afterward for only about four years before Horemheb succeeded him.

A British Museum bust of Ramesses II inspired the poet Percy Bysshe _ _ _ _ _ _ _ to write the sonnet 'Ozymandias.'

The pyramids credited to Khufu, his son, and his grandson all rise together on this plateau on Cairo's outskirts.

After death, Amenhotep I was deified alongside his mother and consulted by the workers of Deir el-Medina for guidance and prophecy at village festivals.

Hatshepsut's only child by her husband-brother Thutmose II was a daughter who served as a God's Wife of Amun and appears in temple reliefs beside her mother.

One of Alexander the Great's own generals founded Egypt's final ruling dynasty under this name.

Tutankhamun's mummified face was covered by an iconic solid-gold funerary covering, inlaid with lapis lazuli and colored glass, now Egypt's single most recognized artifact.

The king who finally drove Egypt's foreign Hyksos rulers from the Nile Delta became the first pharaoh of the New Kingdom's Eighteenth Dynasty.

Senusret III, worshipped as a living god in his own lifetime, built one of his most important southern fortresses at the Nile's second cataract, guarding the border opposite a matching fort on the far bank.

Chief wife of Akhenaten, this queen may briefly have ruled Egypt herself under another royal name after his death.

Thutmose III is also credited with creating Egypt's first true seaborne fighting fleet, projecting royal power well beyond the Nile.

The smallest of the three great Giza pyramids belongs to Khafre's son, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.

This son of Sneferu commissioned the largest pyramid ever built, on the plateau outside modern Cairo.

Manetho's ancient Aegyptiaca gives Egypt's very first pharaoh a different name from the one inscribed on his own two-sided ceremonial palette, though most Egyptologists now treat the two records as describing one and the same king.

Seti I raised a magnificent limestone temple, finished after his death by his famous son Ramesses II, at this sacred site.

Early in his reign, Seti I recaptured the city of Kadesh from _ _ _ _ _ _ _ control, though it soon slipped away again.

Securing the embalmed body of this Macedonian conqueror helped Ptolemy I legitimize his new rule over Egypt.

Often called 'the Great,' this pharaoh reigned some sixty-six years and reportedly fathered over a hundred children.

Unearthed at Amarna in 1912, Nefertiti's painted limestone bust now resides in a museum in _ _ _ _ _ _.

Egypt's oldest colossal stone building, the Step Pyramid, still rises at this necropolis south of modern Cairo.

Once crowned, Thutmose IV completed the tallest _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ever raised in Egypt, a granite needle at Karnak.

Khafre's wife was buried in a Giza tomb famous for its vividly painted scenes of Old Kingdom court and daily life.

Ramesses II's most famous battle, against the Hittites, was fought near this Syrian city and ended in a bloody stalemate.

The chief architect and physician who designed Egypt's first great stone pyramid was later deified as a god of healing and wisdom.

Born Amenhotep IV, this pharaoh renamed himself in honor of a single sun disk and built an entirely new capital out in the desert.

Ramesses II's favorite wife was honored with her own small temple beside his colossal rock-cut monument at Abu Simbel, its facade lined with statues portraying her as a goddess.