Today we are going to talk about Egypt…

Where is Egypt?

• Top right corner of Africa

What might we see in Egypt?

Egyptian Architecture

There were two main purposes for Egyptian architecture:

1.To create a place to worship the kind and have ceremonies to worship him while he was alive.

2.To create a tomb to bury the king or pharaoh after he died.

Open Pit

• Mastaba- a four-sided sloped construction with a flat top and an access hole which let on a vertical axis into the ground.

Step Pyramid

The Great Pyramids at Giza• The Great Pyramids were created as

burial monuments.

What are Hieroglyphics?

• Hieroglyphics – translated by greek meant “sacred carvings” The greeks believed that the egyptians priests produced these writings for sacred purposes.

• Hieroglyphics is picture writing and is one of the oldest systems of writing.

• Each picture represents an object. There are over 700 different signs

Where might we find Hieroglyphics?

• Temples• Tombs• Cartouches• Pyramids

Example of Hieroglyphics

Cartouche

• In Ancient Egypt, names were often depicted inside a cartouche.

• A cartouche is an oval depicted to look like rope that is folded and tied at the end.

Great Sphinx at Giza, Egypt• The Sphinx’s head was modeled after a

Pharaoh and has a lion’s body.

• The lion is an important “symbol” to the Egyptians, it signifies immortality.

Where have we seen part of a lion used before?