THE WORLD’S GREATEST ANCIENT CIVILIZATION?

KINGS AND QUEENS OF THE NILE BBBBEGAN AROUND 4000 BC RRRRULED BY “PHARAOHS” GREAT KINGS AND QUEENS TTTTHE PHARAOHS WERE SAID TO BE DIRECT DESCENDANTS OF THE GODS

OLD KINGDOM PPPPHAROAH: MENES UNITED UPPER AND LOWER EGYPT RULED BUILT THE FIRST CITY OF EGYPT, MEMPHIS (LOCATED NEAR PRESENT DAY CAIRO, EGYPT CAPITAL CITY) HIS UNITED EGYPT LASTED FOR 2,500 YEARS

THE ALL POWERFUL PHARAOHS AAAABSOLUTE POWER WWWWORDS BECAME LAW AND THOSE WHO BROKE THEM SUFFERED TTTTHE RELIGIOUS LEADER, AS WELL AS THE POLITICAL LEADER

THE MIDDLE KINGDOM AAAABOUT 2250 BC GOVERNERS CHALLENGED THE PHARAOHS THE DYNASTIES GREW WEAK RESTORED IN THE MIDDLE KINGDOM

THE NEW KINGDOM TTTTHE PHARAOHS OF THE NEW KINGDOM NOT ONLY DROVE OUT ALL INVADERS, BUT THEY CREATED ARMIES THAT WERE SO HUGE THAT THEY WOULD BECOME UNBEATABLE THE USE OF BRONZE AND WAR CHARIOTS LED THEM INTO THE NEW ERA

THE RISE OF THE POWERFUL 1111500 BC A CHILD NAMED THUTMOSE BECAME PHARAOH TTTTO YOUNG TO RULE A REGENT WAS APPOINTED FOR HIM, HIS STEPMOTHER, HATSHEPSUT DECLARED HERSELF PHARAOH, SHE WOULD RULE EGYPT FOR 22 YEARS

HATSHEPSUT TTTTHUTMOSE GREW OLDER HATSHEPSUT REFUSED TO RELEASE THE THRONE MANY BELIEVE HER DEATH SOON AFTER THIS REFUSAL WAS NO ACCIDENT AFTER HER DEATH THUTMOSE TOOK THE THRONE AND DESTROYED ALL THAT SHE HAD ACCOMPLISHED

TUTANKHAMEN “KING TUT” BBBBECAME PHAROAH OF EGYPT AT THE AGE OF 9 AND REIGNED UNTIL THE AGE OF 18 THE SON OF AKHENATON, TUT WAS FORCED TO DECLARE AMON-RE THE CHIEF GOD OF EGYPT CALLED THE BOY KING, TUT WAS WORSHIPPED AS THE LIVING FORM OF AMON-RE.

KING TUT TOMB

DEATH MASK OF TUT

EGYPTIAN RELIGION TTTTHE EGYPTIANS BELIEVED IN ETERNITY FOR ALL SOULS YYYYOUR LIFE AND STATUS DETERMINED YOUR PLACE IN ETERNITY TTTTHE CHIEF GOD WAS AMON- RE, “THE HIDDEN ONE”

EGYPTIAN GODS MMMMANY OF THE GODS WERE DEPICTED AS HUMANS WITH ANIMAL HEADS OOOOSIRIS:“THE GOD OF THE LIVING AND THE DEAD” WAS VERY IMPORTANT IIIISIS:THE WIFE OF OSIRIS WAS THE GODDESS OF PROTECTION FOR CHILDREN  Duamutef, who had the head of a jackal  Qebehsenuf, who had the head of a falcon  Qebehsenuf, who had the head of a falcon  Hapi, the baboon- headed son of Horus,  Hapi, the baboon- headed son of Horus,

MUMMIES

MUMMIES

MUMMIESOF THE EGYPTIAN DESERT OF EGYPT

TOMBS OF THE KINGS DDDDURING THE OLD KINGDOM THE EGYPTIANS BUILT THE PYRAMIDS GGGGIANT TOMBS FOR THE DEAD KINGS THE LARGEST IS THE GREAT PYRAMID AT GIZA

PYRAMIDS MMMMANY CONTAIN AS MANY AS 2 MILLION STONES EACH STONES WEIGHS UP TO 5000 POUNDS, 2 TONS A ALMOST 20 YEARS TO COMPLETE ONE PYRAMID USED HEBREW SLAVES AND OTHERS

EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHICS UUUUSED PICTURES AND SYMBOLS TO TELL STORIES IT WAS NOT UNTIL 1799 THAT MODERN MAN COULD BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND THE ANCIENT TEXT THE ROSETTA STONE UNLOCKED THE MYSTERY IT WAS A TRANSLATION STONE, SHOWING HOW TO CHANGE EGYPTIAN INTO GREEK

ALEXANDER THE GREAT AAAALEXANDER WAS A GENERAL AND RULER OF A MASSIVE ARMY THAT CONQUERED MOST OF THE ANCIENT WORLD, INCLUDING THE GREEKS AND THE EGYPTIANS IN ABOUT 332 BC HE OVERTOOK THE KINGDOM OF EGYPT