A View of Egypt by Satellite
The Fertile Nile Valley
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. E.
3100 – 2650 B. C. E.
2650 – 2134 B. C. E.
2040 – 1640 B. C. E.
1550 – 1070 B. C. E.
Late Period
Greek Ptolemaic
Era
Roman Period
750 – 332 B. C. E.
332 – 30 B. C. E.
30 B. C. E. – 395 C. E.
Menes: Unifier of Upper & 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 “MustHaves”
Mirror
Perfume
Wigs
Egyptian Social Hierarchy
Some Famous Egyptian
Pharaohs
Tutankhamon
Tutankhamon
1336-1327
1336-1327 B.
B. C.
C. E.
E.
Thutmose
III
1504-1450 B. C.
E.
Ramses II
1279-1212 B. C.
E.
Egyptian Nobility
Egyptian Priestly Class
Egyptian Scribe
Papyrus  Paper
Hieratic Scroll Piece
Papyrus Plant
Egyptian Math & Draftsmenship
1
10 100 1000 10,000 100,000 1,000,000
What number is this?
Champollion & the Rosetta Stone
Hieroglyphics “Alphabet”
24 “letters” + 700 phonetic symbols
Egyptian Creation Myth
The Goddess Nut
Egyptian Gods & Goddesses:
“The Sacred ‘Trinity’”
Osiris
Isis
Horus
Preparations for the Underworld
ANUBIS weighs the
dead person’s heart
against a feather.
Priests protected
your KA, or soulspirit
Materials Used in Mummification
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3.
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Linen
Linen
Sawdust
Sawdust
Lichen
Lichen
Beeswax
Beeswax
Resin
Resin
6.
6. Natron
Natron
7.
7. Onion
Onion
8.
8. Nile
Nile Mud
Mud
9.
9. Linen
Linen Pads
Pads
10.
10. Frankinsense
Frankinsense
Preparation for
the Afterlife
Egyptian Mummies
Seti I
1291-1278 B. C. E.
Queen Tiye,
wife of
Amenhotep II
1210-1200
1210-1200 B.
B. C.
C. E.
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
Shabtis: The Pharaoh’s
Servants
in the Afterlife
Stepped Pyramid at Saqqara
“Bent” Pyramid of King
Sneferu
Giza Pyramid Complex
Plan of the Great Pyramid
of Khufu
The Valley of the Kings
Archaeologist, Howard Carter (1922)
Entrance to King “Tut’s” Tomb
King Tutankhamon’s Death Mask
1336-1327
1336-1327 B.
B. C.
C. E.
E.
King Tutankhamon
King Tutankhamun’s Tomb
Treasures From Tut’s Tomb
The Valley of the Queens
1473-1458
1473-1458 B.
B. C.
C. E.
E.
Temple of Queen
Hatshepsut
Ankhenaton: First Monotheist?
1352-1336
1352-1336 B.
B. C.
C. E.
E.
The Ankh – The “Cross” of
Life
Queen
Nefertiti
Abu Simbel:
Monument to Ramses II
1279-1213 B. C. E.
Routes of the “Sea Peoples”
The end of the Bronze Age!