Thanks to Susan M. Pojer
Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY for some of the slides
Essential Questions:
Who are the Ancient egyptians?
Where did they live?
How did they develop their traditions
and beliefs?
How has their culture affected modern
day society?
What is the Egyptian legacy to
Europe?
Ancient
Egypt
A View of Egypt by Satellite
The Annual Flooding of the Nile
Nile Irrigation-the Shaduf
Ancient Egyptian History
Periods
Time Frame
Nile Culture Begins
Archaic
Old Kingdom
Middle Kingdom
New Kingdom
3900 B. C.
3100 – 2650 B. C.
2650 – 2134 B. C.
2040 – 1640 B. C.
1550 – 1070 B. C.
Late Period
Greek Ptolemaic Era
Roman Period
750 – 332 B. C.
332 – 30 B. C.
30 B. C.. – 395 A.D.
Menes:
Unifier of Upper and
Lower Egypt
c. 3050 B. C. E. ?
Ancient Egyptian Housing
Middle Class
Homes
Peasant
Homes
Scenes of Ancient Egyptian
Daily Life
Making Ancient Egyptian Beer
Making Ancient Egyptian Wine
An Egyptian Woman’s “Must-Haves”
Mirror
Perfume
Wigs
Egyptian Social Hierarchy
Egyptian Nobility
Some Famous Egyptian Pharaohs
Tutankhamon
1336-1327 B. C. E.
Akhenaton
1379 -1334
B.C.
Ramses II
1279-1212 B. C.
Monotheism
Tel Amarna-the great city of Akhenaton
Abu Simbel:
Monument to Ramses II
Egyptian Scribe
Papyrus  Paper
Hieratic Scroll Piece
Papyrus Plant
Egyptian Math & Draftsmenship
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10 100 1000 10,000 100,000 1,000,000
What number is this?
Champollion & the Rosetta Stone
Hieroglyphic
“Cartouche”
Hieroglyphics “Alphabet”
24 “letters” + 700 phonetic symbols
Preparations for the Underworld
ANUBIS weighs the dead
person’s heart against a
feather.
Priests protected your
KA, or soul-spirit
Mummification
Materials Used in Mummification
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Linen
Sawdust
Lichen
Beeswax
Resin
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Natron
Onion
Nile Mud
Linen Pads
Frankinsense
Preparation for
the Afterlife
The Ankh – The “Cross” of Life
King Tutankhamon’s Death Mask
1336-1327 B. C. E.
Egyptian Mummies
Seti I
1291-1278 B. C. E.
Queen Tiye, wife of
Amenhotep II
1210-1200 B. C. E.
Ramses II
1279-1212 B. C. E.
Journey to the Underworld
The dead travel on
the “Solar Bark.”
A boat for the
journey is provided
for a dead pharaoh
in his tomb.
Egyptian Book of the Dead
The Final Judgement
Anubis
Horus
Osiris
Shabtis: The Pharaoh’s Servants
in the Afterlife
Stepped Pyramid at Saqqara
“Bent” Pyramid of King Sneferu
Giza Pyramid Complex
The Valley of the Queens
1473-1458 B. C. E.
Temple of Queen Hatshepsut
Queen
Nefertiti
Egypt’s
Legacy
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Architecture
United We Stand
One Ruler
Queens
Beauty
Paper
Writing?
Divine right
The afterlife
The judgment after death
Monotheism?
Moses and the Exodus
Who Are These Strange People?
Routes of the “Sea Peoples”
The end of the Bronze Age!