Coach Harken

A View of Egypt by Satellite

The Fertile Nile Valley

The Annual Flooding of the Nile

Nile Irrigation-the Shaduf

Egyptian Timeline Old Kingdom ( )Old Kingdom ( ) –Hieroglyphics and religion develop in Egypt –pyramids built Middle Kingdom ( )Middle Kingdom ( ) –extension of Egyptian control into Nubia New Kingdom ( )New Kingdom ( ) –militaristic - Hebrews enslaved –mummification perfected

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

Some Famous Egyptian Pharaohs Thutmose III B. C. E. Ramses II B. C. E. Tutankhamon B. C. E.

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”

Hieroglyphics “Alphabet” 24 “letters” phonetic symbols

Ra Ra – the sun god. He was the most important god of the ancient Egyptians. Isis Isis – the protective goddess. She used powerful magic to help people in need. Anubis Anubis – the god of embalming and the dead. Osiris – god of the dead, and ruler of the underworld.

Seth Seth – the god of chaos. Atum Atum – the creator god. Believed to be the first god to exist. Sekhmet Sekhmet – goddess of war. Horus Horus – god of the sky. Protector of the pharaoh.

Preparations for the Underworld Priests protected your KA, or soul-spirit ANUBIS weighs the dead person’s heart against a feather.

Materials Used in Mummification 1. Linen 6. Natron 2. Sawdust 7. Onion 3. Lichen 8. Nile Mud 4. Beeswax 9. Linen Pads 5. Resin 10. Frankinsense

Canopic Jars

Removal of the Organs

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

The Final Judgement Anubis Horus Osiris

Shabtis: The Pharaoh’s Servants in the Afterlife

Stepped Pyramid at Saqqara

“Bent” Pyramid of King Sneferu

Giza Pyramid Complex

Plan of the Great Pyramid of Khufu

The Valley of the Kings

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 Valley of the Queens Temple of Queen Hatshepsut B. C. E.

Ankhenaton: First Monotheist? B. C. E.

The Ankh – The “Cross” of Life

Queen Nefertiti

Who Are These Strange People?

Abu Simbel: Monument to Ramses II B. C. E.

What goes on four legs in the morning, on two legs at noon, and on three legs in the evening?What goes on four legs in the morning, on two legs at noon, and on three legs in the evening?

The Great Sphinx

Hyksos

Nubia or Kush

Phoenicians

Routes of the “Sea Peoples” The end of the Bronze Age!