Egyptian
Innovations
Ships
• Used for transportation
• Used for trading along the Nile and in the
Mediterranean Sea
• An exciting discovery of Pharaoh Khufu’s ship
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2Ubf1Y
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Papyrus
• Invented to make it easier to transport
information – before papyrus they had to carry
around heavy clay tablets!
• Allowed laws to be distributed to everyone
• Only scribes some of the royal family and upper
classes knew how to read or write -upper classes
did not want the ordinary Egyptian people to
have this ability
• http://app.discoveryeducation.com/player/view/
assetGuid/3F3AA2F3-2EDF-4D7E-8950562059C920CB
Pyramids
• Made to house the tombs of Pharaohs (tombs
included their mummified body and items for
afterlife)
• Egyptians used knowledge of angles and
measurements to build them
• http://app.discoveryeducation.com/player/vie
w/assetGuid/2314FE9C-3566-4D10-A9DC1FFB326A39D5
Sarcophagus
• Similar to a coffin today
• Used to house the
mummified body of a
pharaoh after death
• Made to look like the real
person so they would be
accepted into the afterlife