A View of Egypt by Satellite
The Fertile Nile Valley
The Annual Flooding of the Nile
Nile Irrigation-the Shaduf
Ancient Egyptian History PeriodsTime Frame Nile Culture Begins3900 B. C. E. Archaic3100 – 2650 B. C. E. Old Kingdom2650 – 2134 B. C. E. Middle Kingdom2040 – 1640 B. C. E. New Kingdom1550 – 1070 B. C. E. Late Period750 – 332 B. C. E. Greek Ptolemaic Era332 – 30 B. C. E. Roman Period30 B. C. E. – 395 C. E.
Menes: Unifier of Upper & Lower Egypt c B. C. E. ?
Ancient Egyptian Housing Middle Class Homes Peasant Homes
Scenes of Ancient Egyptian Daily Life
Making Ancient Egyptian Beer
Making Ancient Egyptian Wine
An Egyptian Woman’s “Must-Haves” Perfume Whigs Mirror
Egyptian Social Hierarchy
Egyptian Nobility
Egyptian Priestly Class
Egyptian Scribe
Papyrus Paper Papyrus Plant Hieratic Scroll Piece
Egyptian Math & Draftsmenship ,000100,0001,000,000 What number is this?
Champollion & the Rosetta Stone
Hieroglyphic “Cartouche”
Egyptian Gods & Goddesses: “The Sacred ‘Trinity’” Osiris Isis Horus
Preparations for the Underworld The Ba of Nefetari ANUBIS weighs the dead person’s heart against a feather.
Preparation for the Afterlife
Egyptian Mummies Seti I B. C. E. Queen Tiye, wife of Amenhotep II B. C. E. Ramses II 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 & Opening of the Mouth Ceremony
The Final Judgement: Test of the Heart and Feather The Final Judgement: Test of the Heart and Feather Anubis Horus Osiris
Shabtis: The Pharaoh’s Servants in the Afterlife
Stepped Pyramid at Saqqara by Djoser
“Bent” Pyramid of King Sneferu
Giza Pyramid Complex By Cheops, Khaffre, & Menaukre
Plan of the Great Pyramid of Khufu
The New Kingdom’s Agenda I (Amun) gave you valour and victory over all lands. I set your might, your fear in every country, The dread of you as far as heaven’s four supports. I magnified your awe in every body I made your person’s fame traverse the Nine Bows. (From Thutmose III’s Tomb)
Famous Egyptian Pharaohs Thutmose III B. C. E. Ramses II B. C. E. Tutankhamun B. C. E. Hatshepsut B. C. E. Akhenaton BCE Akhenaton BCE
The Valley of the Kings & the New Kingdom
The Valley of the Queens Temple of Queen Hatshepsut B. C. E.
Relief of Hatshepsut’s Expedition to the Land of Punt
Ankhenaton: Another Monotheist? B. C. E.
Queen Nefertiti
Archaeologist, Howard Carter (1922)
Entrance to King “Tut’s” Tomb
King Tutankhamon’s Death Mask B. C. E.
King Tutankhamon
King Tutankhamun’s Tomb
Treasures From Tut’s Tomb
The Ankh – The “Cross” of Life
Abu Simbel: Monument to Ramses II B. C. E.
Kadesh and Exodus
Who Are These Strange People?
Routes of the “Sea Peoples” The end of the Bronze Age!