Egypt Cloze Reading
name: _______________________________
The ancient Egyptians lived in the ________ of the Nile River. The land around the Nile River is a dry and
hot ___________. Not all of Egypt is dry desert. Sometimes a ______ would come and give much of the
land needed water. Also, sometimes there would be a nice wet _________ where many plants like
___________ grew. The made paper from the _________ plant.
The Egyptians had a great and advanced civilization. They had a religion , beautiful art, a writing system
and they knew how to build many things. The Egyptians believed in an ___________. When an
important person died, they would _________ the body and make them into a _____________. In the
___________ they put things that the dead person might need in his new life. The __________’s are
really __________ s for the __________ (who were like kings). Some people knew how to make
_____________ for the rich people to wear. There were __________ that played pretty music to
entertain the rich people. Other people wrote _____________ on ____________ paper. Rich people
and soldiers usually rode in a fast ____________. Rich people made the __________ work very hard.
They built many things like _________ for dead ___________. Today we can still see many of these
interesting things in Egypt in museums around the world.
Word Bank (you can use words more than once)
Tomb
embalm
papyrus
hieroglyphics
jewelry
Marsh
pharaohs
pyramids
chariot
afterlife
Mummy
musicians
desert
slaves
delta
flood
Cloze Reading #2
The Ancient Egyptian _________________ began about 5,000 years ago along the Nile which flooded
____________ and deposited fertile black soil along its valley. The main crops of wheat and barley
could then be _____________ easily. The river was used for transportation and also provided water for
________________ in this hot, dry land.
The Egyptians ___________ many deities such as Isis, Horus and the sun god Re, and built huge
______________ to worship them. Pictures in tombs show gods and goddesses with human
__________________ and the head of birds or animals.
They believed in life after death so corpses were ________________ to preserve them for the afterlife.
The body was then ____________ in linen bandages and placed in a coffin in a tomb. The ___________
near Cairo, modern Egypt’s capital, were built as tombs for _____________ such as Ramsese and
Tutankhamen who were _______________ to be gods.
We know about the ____________ of Ancient Egyptians because archaeologist have _______________
these tombs. We would know more had then not bee plundered by grave _________ over the years.
The tombs and temples in the Valley of the Kings ______________ thousands of interested tourists each
year.
We still remember some of the great ________________ of these people who lived so long ago. They
________________ a 365 day calendar and introduced a form of picture writing called hieroglyphics
which could be _________________ when the Rosetta stone was discovered. They also invented
papyrus, a kind of paper made from the ___________ of plants.
Word Bank (use words only once)
Pharaohs
irrigation
stems
grown
achievements
Worshipped
civilization
pyramids
deciphered
temples
Annually
robbers
attract
explored
mummified
Created
thought
bodies
wrapped
lives