1. 2. The Ancient
Egyptians

2. A View of Egypt by Satellite

3. The Fertile Nile Valley

4. The Annual Flooding of the Nile

5. Nile Irrigation-the Shaduf

6. Ancient Egyptian History
Periods
Time Frame
Nile Culture Begins
3900 B. C. E.
Archaic
3100 – 2650 B. C. E.
Old Kingdom
2650 – 2134 B. C. E.
Middle Kingdom
2040 – 1640 B. C. E.
New Kingdom
1550 – 1070 B. C. E.
Late Period
750 – 332 B. C. E.
Greek Ptolemaic Era
332 – 30 B. C. E.
Roman Period
30 B. C. E. – 395 C. E.

7. Menes: Unifier of Upper & Lower Egypt
c B. C. E. ?

8. Scenes of Ancient Egyptian Daily Life

9. An Egyptian Woman’s “Must-Haves”
Mirror
Perfume
Whigs

10. Egyptian Social Hierarchy

11. Some Famous Egyptian Pharaohs
Menes c B. C. E. ? .
Echnaton
?-1335 BC
Nofertiti
?-1338 BC
Tutankhamon B. C. E.
Ramses II B. C. E.

12. Ancient Egyptian Housing
Middle Class Homes
Peasant Homes

13. Ankhenaton: First Monotheist?
B. C. E.

14. The Ankh – The “Cross” of Life

15. Queen Nefertiti

16. Archaeologist, Howard Carter (1922)

17. King Tutankhamon’s Death Mask.

18. King Tutankhamon

19. King Tutankhamun’s Tomb

20. Treasures From Tut’s Tomb

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

22. Egyptian Nobility

23. Egyptian Priestly Class

24. Egyptian Scribe

25. Papyrus  Paper
Hieratic Scroll Piece
Papyrus Plant

26. Egyptian Math & Draftsmenship1 10
100
1000
10,000
100,000
1,000,000
What number is this?

27. Champollion & the Rosetta Stone

28. Hieroglyphic “Cartouche”

29. Hieroglyphics “Alphabet” 24 “letters” + 700 phonetic symbols

30. Egyptian Creation Myth
The Goddess Nut

31. Egyptian Gods & Goddesses: “The Sacred ‘Trinity’”
Osiris Isis Horus

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

33. Materials Used in Mummification
1. Linen Natron 2. Sawdust Onion 3. Lichen Nile Mud 4. Beeswax Linen Pads 5. Resin Frankinsense

34. Preparation for the Afterlife

35. Queen Tiye, wife of Amenhotep II 1210-1200 B. C. E.
Egyptian Mummies
Seti I B. C. E.
Ramses II B. C. E.
Queen Tiye, wife of Amenhotep II B. C. E.

36. Journey to the Underworld
The dead travel on the “Solar Bark.”
A boat for the journey is provided for a dead pharaoh in his tomb.

37. Egyptian Book of the Dead

38. The Final Judgement
Anubis Horus Osiris

39. Shabtis: The Pharaoh’s Servants in the Afterlife

40. Stepped Pyramid at Saqqara

41. “Bent” Pyramid of King Sneferu

42. Plan of the Great Pyramid of Khufu

43. Giza Pyramid Complex

44. The Valley of the Kings

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