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JIGSAW: Put Osiris Back Together (36-Pieces)

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Kids! Help put Osiris back together in this fun 36-piece online jigsaw puzzle. Play now by moving the pieces.

35-piece Osiris jigsaw puzzle

Osiris was the ancient Egyptian god of the afterlife.

His skin is green, the color of grass in spring, because it represents rebirth.
Egyptians believed they were reborn in the afterlife, a place like Egypt, except better.
According to myth, Set chopped Osiris to pieces and flung them to the far corners of the earth. Isis used her powerful magic to put Osiris back together.
Now it's your turn!
Kids, can you solve this 36-piece Osiris puzzle?
Play by moving the pieces below.



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Hieroglyphics Chart (Print, Share, Embed)

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Do you need a hieroglyphics chart to help with your homework projects, for school classroom activities, to accompany a worksheet, or to decode hieroglyphics words and phrases? I've put together this handy table. It translates the English alphabet letters into their hieroglyphic equivalent.
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Scarab Meaning | Scarab Amulet Symbols

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Why were scarab amulets important to ancient Egyptians?

Scarab beetles symbolized eternal life and rebirth. Because of this, scarab beetles held great religious power. Why? If you could be reborn, it meant you could live for all eternity, which was a pretty good deal. In Egyptian mythology, a scarab-headed god called Kephri was responsible for rolling the sun across the sky all day, then pushing it over the edge of the horizon to its death every night. The next morning Kephri would rebirth the sun by rolling it back up into the sky from the opposite horizon. How did the scarab beetle earn such an amazing myth? Ancient Egyptians saw the 'magical' way beetles produce offspring, which you can read more about below. From this, they decided that beetles embodied the cycle of creation.

Scarab amulets would lend the sacred beetle's power to the wearer. They offered a person magical protection against the dangers of this world, as well as those of the next.

By design, scarab amule…
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