Дар Нила
The Gift of the Nile
B2 · Upper Intermediate · non-fiction · 10 scenes · Premium story
An upper-intermediate non-fiction reader on Ancient Egypt: the river that made a civilisation possible, pharaohs and pyramids, Ra's nightly battle with chaos, the myth of Osiris, the weighing of the heart, seventy days of mummification, cats above the law, and the day Champollion made the hieroglyphs speak again.
Characters
- Ra (Ра) — God of the sun
- Osiris (Осирис) — King of the world of the dead
- Anubis (Анубис) — Judge of hearts
- Champollion (Шампольон) — The decipherer
Vocabulary from this story
- река — river
- пустыня — desert
- земля — land
- ил — silt
- цивилизация — civilisation
- эпоха — age
- солнце — sun
- восход — sunrise
- фараон — pharaoh
- правитель — ruler
- царство — kingdom
- трон — throne