ANCIENT EGYPT

BY RENE KATSOURIS

FIVE THUSANDS YEARS AGO , EGYPT WAS A POWERFULL AND RICH COUNTRY THANKS TO RIVER NILE .AROUNT THE NILE EGYPTIANS FARMERS GREW CROPS AND RAISED ANIMALS . NILE WAS FULL OF FISH AND PEOPLE FISHED A LOT. THEY WERE ALSO GOOD HUNTERS . THEY HUNT FOR SURVIVAL OR JUST FOR FUN.THEY TRAVELLED BY BOATS BECAUSE THE DESERT WAS DANGEROUS .

GODS AND GODNESSES

EGYPTIANS HAD LOTS OF GODS AND GODNESSES. THE MOST IMPORTANT WAS :

AMMUT

demon who devoured souls

Khnemu

GOD OF RIVER NILE

THOTH

GOD OF THE MOON AND WISDOM

PYRAMIDES HEOPA’S PYRAMIDES IT’S ONE OF THE SEVEN wonders of the ancient world .IT IS 146,5 METERS TALL AND WEITH 6.2 MILLION TONS!!! EGYPTIANS BUILT THE PYRAMIDES TO HOSTE THE DEAD PHARAOHS BODIES FOR A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME UNTIL THEY BECAME GODS.

INSIDE THE PYRAMIDESINSIDE THE PYRAMIDS EGYPTIANS PUT ITEMS WHICH THEY BELIVED RHARAOH WILL NEED FOR HIS LIFE AFTER DEATH.THE WALLS WAS DRAWN WITH ELABORATE DESIGNS. IT HAD TO BE PERFECT FOR THE PHARAOH.THERE IS A ROOM WHERE THE MUMMIES ARE “LIVING” . EGYPTIANS WANTED TO PROTECT THE MUMMIES AND THEIR “ TREASURES” FROM INTRUNTERS .THEY BUILT THOUSANDS OF DIFFERENT ROOMS SO THEY WILL BE LOST !!!

MUMMIES

EGYPTIANS BELIEVED IN LIFE AFTER DEATH . THEY BECAME VERY GOOD AT MUMMIFICATION. NOW , BY THE HELP OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY,EVERYONE CAN SEE INSIDE THE MUMMIES. IT’S REALY DISGUSTING BUT EXCITING AT THE SAME TIME !!!

FAMOUS EMPERORS

Ramsses IIRAMSSES ( THE GREAT )WAS THE 19TH EMPEROR AND THE MOST POWERFUL EGYPTIAN PHARAOH.HE BORDNED AT 1303 BC . AT 1279 ,WHEN HE WAS 24 YEARS OLD, HE BECAME PHARAOH OF EGYPT. HE HAD 7 WOMENS, 50 SONS AND 50 DAUGTERS. RAMSSES II died in 1213 BC at the age of 90 years OLD . His name was glorified for centuries After the Ramses II another ten Pharaohs were named after him. The great ruler buried in the Valley of the Kings.

CLEOPATRACLEOPATRA G WAS BORNED AT JANUARY 69 BC. SHE WAS THE LAST QUEEN OF Hellenistic Ancient Egypt , BEFORE EGYPT MASTERED BY ROMANS.AS WE ALL KNOW SHE managed to seduce two of the most powerful men of her days. Julius Caesar and Mark Antony as well for her beauty and her tragic death. CLEOPATRA ASSUMES THE THRONE , WHEN SHE WAS 18 YEARS OLD. SHE WAS MARRIED SEVERAL TIMES AND SHE GAVE BIRTH TO MANY CHILDREN.Husbands: Philopator Ptolemy XIII GodPtolemy XIVJulius CaesarMark Anthony.CHILDRENS : Caesarion Ptolemy Philopator . Filomitor KaisarrAlexander SunCleopatra Selene, Queen of MauritaniaPtolemy Philadelphus P.UNTIL TODAY HER DEATH REMAIN A MYSTERY.

THE END !!!