Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs Trivia Word Search

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 _ _ _ _ _.

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

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

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

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

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

Egypt's first confirmed female king paired the crocodile god Sobek's name with '_ _ _ _ _ _,' meaning roughly 'beautiful ones.'

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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 _ _ _.

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.

A Kushite king ruling from Nubia invaded and conquered Egypt, founding the Twenty-fifth Dynasty as its first pharaoh, a line later remembered for its devotion to the god Amun.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.'

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Piye's son, later identified with the biblical ally 'Tirhakah,' ruled both Egypt and Kush and rebuilt temples at Karnak and Memphis during a period of unusually large Nile floods.

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

A Greek writer often called the 'father of history' recorded that sailors sent by Necho II sailed all the way around the African continent.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Egypt's most famous boy pharaoh, discovered nearly untouched in his tomb in 1922, was born 'Tutankhaten' before restoring the old religion and renaming himself after the god _ _ _ _.