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Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt. Mr. Pagliaro Seymour High School. A View of Egypt by Satellite. Mediterranean Sea. Nile Delta. Kehmet: Nile River. Lower Egypt. Deshret : Sahara Desert. Sinai Peninsula. Upper Egypt. Nubian Desert. Red Sea. Fertile Nile Valley. Annual Flooding.

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Ancient Egypt

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  1. Ancient Egypt Mr. Pagliaro Seymour High School

  2. A View of Egypt by Satellite Mediterranean Sea Nile Delta Kehmet: Nile River Lower Egypt Deshret: Sahara Desert Sinai Peninsula Upper Egypt Nubian Desert Red Sea

  3. Fertile Nile Valley

  4. Annual Flooding Egypt: Gift of the Nile

  5. Irrigation: the Shaduf

  6. Hieroglyphics

  7. Hieroglyphic “Cartouche”

  8. Hieratic Script

  9. Egyptian Scribe

  10. Papyrus  Paper Hieratic Scroll Piece Papyrus Plant

  11. Champollion & the Rosetta Stone

  12. Hieroglyphics “Alphabet” 24 “letters” + 700 phonetic symbols

  13. Egyptian Math & Draftsmanship What number is this?

  14. Egyptian Creation Myth The Gods & Goddesses Nut (Sky), Geb (Earth), their children Osiris (The Nile, the afterlife) and Isis (magic), and the God Thoth (Knowledge) and Goddess Maat (Truth & Justice) who aided their birth against the will of Ra.

  15. Egyptian Gods & Goddesses:“The Sacred ‘Trinity’” Osiris Isis Horus

  16. The Ankh – The “Cross” of Life

  17. Preparations for the Underworld ANUBIS weighs the dead person’s heart against a feather. Priests protected your KA, or soul-spirit

  18. Materials Used in Mummification 1. Linen 6. Natron2. Sawdust 7. Onion3. Lichen 8. Nile Mud4. Beeswax 9. Linen Pads5. Resin 10. Frankinsense

  19. Egyptian Mummies Ramses II1279-1212 B. C. Seti I1291-1278 B. C. Queen Tiye, wife of Amenhotep II1210-1200 B. C.

  20. 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.

  21. Shabtis: The Pharaoh’s Servants in the Afterlife

  22. Egyptian Priestly Class

  23. Preparation for the Afterlife

  24. Egyptian Book of the Dead

  25. The Final Judgment Ammut: Devourer of Souls Anubis Horus Osiris

  26. Egyptian History

  27. Archaic Period

  28. Menes: Unified Upper/Lower Egypt c. 3050 B. C. ?

  29. Narmer Palette

  30. Mastabas

  31. Old Kingdom • Pharaoh = king & god • Complete power • Owned everything • Ruled w/ help of Viziers • Only nobility were mummified • Old Kingdom = Period of Pyramid Building

  32. Egyptian Social Hierarchy

  33. Ancient Egyptian Housing Middle Class Homes Peasant Homes

  34. Scenes of Ancient EgyptianDaily Life

  35. Stepped Pyramid at Saqqara Built for Pharaoh Djoser(Zo-zer) by the vizier Imhotep Stacked mastabas

  36. “Bent” Pyramid of King Sneferu

  37. Giza Pyramid Complex

  38. Plan of the Great Pyramid of Khufu The Great Pyramid is over 81 times as tall as Mr. Pags. 480.6 feet Nearly 6 feet

  39. New Kingdom

  40. Removal of the Hyksos Ahmose Queen Ahotep Kamose-brother of Ahmose

  41. Some Famous Egyptian Pharaohs Tutankhamen1336-1327 B. C. Thutmose III1504-1450 B. C. Ramses II1279-1212 B. C.

  42. The Valley of the Kings

  43. 1st Tomb Temple of Queen Hatshepsut 1473-1458 B. C.

  44. Hatshepsut 1st female ruler Temples Obelisks Trade with Nubia & Punt

  45. Thutmose III “Erase” Hatshepsut Expand trade w/ Nubia Created an empire Conquered: Entire Nile Valley Palestine Syria

  46. Ankhenaten: First Monotheist? Amenhotep IV 1352-1336 B. C.

  47. QueenNefertiti

  48. Archaeologist, Howard Carter (1922)

  49. Entrance to King “Tut’s” Tomb

  50. King Tutankhamen’s Death Mask 1336-1327 B. C.

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