Ancient EgyptMr. PagliaroSeymour High School

A View of Egypt by SatelliteNile DeltaDeshret: Sahara DesertKehmet: Nile RiverNubianDesertRed SeaMediterranean SeaLower EgyptUpper Egypt

Fertile Nile Valley

Egypt: Gift of the NileAnnual Flooding

Irrigation: the Shaduf

Hieroglyphics

Hieroglyphic Cartouche

Hieratic Script

Egyptian Scribe

Papyrus PaperPapyrus PlantHieratic Scroll Piece

Champollion & the Rosetta Stone

24 letters + 700 phonetic symbolsHieroglyphics Alphabet

Egyptian Math & DraftsmanshipWhat number is this?

110100100010,000100,0001,000,000

Egyptian Creation MythThe 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.

Egyptian Gods & Goddesses: The Sacred Trinity Osiris Isis Horus

The Ankh The Cross of Life

Preparations for the UnderworldPriests protected your KA, or soul-spiritANUBIS weighs the dead persons heart against a feather.

Materials Used in Mummification1. Linen 6. Natron 2. Sawdust 7. Onion 3. Lichen 8. Nile Mud 4. Beeswax 9. Linen Pads 5. Resin 10. Frankinsense

Egyptian MummiesSeti I 1291-1278 B. C.Queen Tiye, wife of Amenhotep II 1210-1200 B. C.Ramses II 1279-1212 B. C.

Journey to the UnderworldA boat for the journey is provided for a dead pharaoh in his tomb.The dead travel on the Solar Bark.

Shabtis: The Pharaohs Servants in the Afterlife

Egyptian Priestly Class

Preparation for the Afterlife

Egyptian Book of the Dead

Anubis Horus OsirisThe Final JudgmentAmmut: Devourer of Souls

Egyptian History

PeriodsTime FrameNile Culture Begins3900 B.C.Archaicc.3500 2650 B.C.Old Kingdomc. 2650 2134 B.C.Middle Kingdomc. 2040 1640 B.C.New Kingdomc.1550 1070 B.C.

Archaic Period

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

Narmer Palette

Mastabas

Old KingdomPharaoh = king & godComplete powerOwned everythingRuled w/ help of ViziersOnly nobility were mummifiedOld Kingdom = Period of Pyramid Building

Egyptian Social Hierarchy

Ancient Egyptian HousingMiddle Class HomesPeasant Homes

Scenes of Ancient Egyptian Daily Life

Stepped Pyramid at SaqqaraBuilt for Pharaoh Djoser (Zo-zer) by the vizier ImhotepStacked mastabas

Bent Pyramid of King Sneferu

Giza Pyramid Complex

North6 mm. at either endEast6 mm. at either endSouth10 mm. at West end,30 mm. at East endWest30 mm. at either end

North0 2 30 W of true NEast0 1 57 N of true ESouth0 5 30 W of true NWest0 2 28 N of true E.

Plan of the Great Pyramid of Khufu480.6 feetNearly 6 feetThe Great Pyramid is over 81 times as tall as Mr. Pags.

New Kingdom

Removal of the HyksosAhmoseQueen AhotepKamose-brother of Ahmose

Some Famous Egyptian Pharaohs

Thutmose III 1504-1450 B. C.Ramses II 1279-1212 B. C. Tutankhamen 1336-1327 B. C.

The Valley of the Kings

1st TombTemple of Queen Hatshepsut1473-1458 B. C.

Hatshepsut1st female rulerTemplesObelisksTrade with Nubia & Punt

Thutmose IIIErase HatshepsutExpand trade w/ NubiaCreated an empireConquered:Entire Nile ValleyPalestineSyria

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

QueenNefertiti

Archaeologist, Howard Carter (1922)

Entrance to King Tuts Tomb

King Tutankhamens Death Mask1336-1327 B. C.

King Tutankhamen

King Tutankhamens Tomb

Treasures From Tuts Tomb

Ramses II: 1300s BC-1212 BCAKA OzmandiasRuled 66 yearsDied around age 9044-56 sons and 40-44 daughtersEgypts largest size as empirePharaoh from Bible?

Ramses IIBattle of Kadesh

Abu Simbel:Monument to Ramses II

Who Are These Strange People?

Routes of the Sea PeoplesInvasion c. 1100 BC

Nubian/Kushite KingdomMoved to MeroeModern SudanTraditional Egyptian civ. moved south

What happened in Lower Egypt?From 1085-33 BC, invaded by-AssyriansPersiansMacedonian-GreeksRome