The Ancient Egyptians
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Coach Dzialo Jacobs HS Algonquin IL
A View of Egypt by Satellite
The Fertile Nile Valley
The Annual Flooding of the Nile 3 Stages 1. Inundation 2. Growth 3.
Harvest Its predictability had a Psychological effect…..
Nile Irrigation-the Shaduf
Menes: Unifier of Upper & Lower Egypt
c. 3050 B. C. E. ?
Ancient Egyptian HousingMiddle Class
Homes
Peasant Homes
Scenes of Ancient EgyptianDaily Life
Making Ancient Egyptian Beer
Making Ancient Egyptian Wine
An Egyptian Woman’s “Must-Haves”
Perfume
Whigs
Mirror
Egyptian Social Hierarchy
Some Famous Egyptian Pharaohs
Thutmose III
1504-1450 B. C. E. Ramses II
1279-1212 B. C. E.
Tutankhamon
1336-1327 B. C. E.
Egyptian Nobility
Egyptian Priestly Class
Egyptian Scribe
Papyrus Paper
Papyrus Plant
Hieratic Scroll Piece
Egyptian Math & Draftsmenship
1 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
Egyptian Creation Myth
The Goddess Nut (Sorry X rated!)
Egyptian Gods & Goddesses:
“The Sacred ‘Trinity’”
Osiris Isis Horus
Preparations for the Underworld Egyptians were obsessed with the
afterlife
Priests protected your KA, or soul-spirit
ANUBIS weighs the dead person’s heart against a feather.
Materials Used in Mummification
1. Linen 6. Natron2. Sawdust 7. Onion3. Lichen 8. Nile canopic jars Mud4. Beeswax 9.Linen Pads5. Resin 10. Cartonnage
Preparation for the Afterlife
Egyptian Mummies
Seti I1291-1278 B.
C. E.Queen Tiye,
wife of Amenhotep II
1210-1200 B. C. E.
Ramses II1279-1212 B.
C. E.
Journey to the Underworld
A boat for the journey is
provided for a dead pharaoh
in his tomb.
The dead travel on the “Solar Bark.”
Egyptian Book of the Dead
The Final Judgement
Anubis Horus Osiris
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)
King Tutankhamon’s Death Mask
1336-1327 B. C. E.
King Tutankhamon
King Tutankhamun’s Tomb
Treasures From Tut’s Tomb
The Valley of the Queens
Temple of Queen Hatshepsut
1473-1458 B. C. E.
Ankhenaton: First Monotheist?
I don’t like dates B. C. E.
The Ankh – The “Cross” of Life
QueenNefertiti
Abu Simbel:Monument to Ramses II
Ego?