BARTERING  When goods are traded by swapping one object for another, rather than by buying them with money.

CARTOUCHES  Hieroglyphics encased in an oval shape that show royal or divine names.

CITY OF THE DEAD  A piece of ground set aside for burial, like a cemetery.

CUBITS  A unit of measurement that matched the length of the king’s arm from his elbow to the tip of his middle finger.

ENTOURAGE  A group of attendants.

IBIS  A wading bird.

IRRIGATION  The process of watering fields.

KEMIT  A schoolbook from which student scribes memorized and copied out stories and rhymes.

LINEN  Cloth woven from flax.

OVERSEER OF FIELDS  A scribe who measured the size of farmers’ fields to calculate how much grain they should pay in taxes.