Rameses VI | | One of the largest pyramids built in ancient Egypt |
Dazed | | To attach something subsidiary to a larger thing |
Great Pyramid | | A gorge on the western bank of the Nile River, in southern Egypt (a burial site of pharohs) |
Systematically | | People who invade a place to rob and destroy it |
Excavators | | One who keeps watch, (guard) |
Dissuade | | An entrance or beginning |
Tutankhamen | | A small room leading into a bigger one |
Archaeologist | | Long, tiring and boring |
Sentinel | | People who search by digging or uncovering |
intact | | A way that proceeds or develops slowly by steps or degrees |
Annex | | Ground that has not been dug up or explored |
Series | | In an orderly thorough manner |
Threshold | | A pharoh whose tomb was built higher on the hill, above Tutankhamen's tomb |
Gradually | | A pharoh or king of Egypt from 1347 to 1339 B.C. (became king at the age of nine) |
Valley of the Kings | | A number of similar or related things coming one after another. |
Tedious | | Covered with a layer of gold |
Antechamber | | To persuade someone not to do something, discourage |
Plunderers | | Bewildered, confused or amazed |
Virgin Soil | | Whole and undamaged |
Gilt | | A scientist who studies the material evidence such as graves, buildings, tools, and pottery remaining from past human culture or life |