1. 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. Ancient Egyptian Housing
Middle Class Homes
Peasant Homes

9. Scenes of Ancient Egyptian Daily Life

10. Making Ancient Egyptian Beer

11. Making Ancient Egyptian Wine

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

13. Egyptian Social Hierarchy

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

15. Egyptian Nobility

16. Egyptian Priestly Class

17. Egyptian Scribe

18. Papyrus  Paper
Hieratic Scroll Piece
Papyrus Plant

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

20. Champollion & the Rosetta Stone

21. Hieroglyphic “Cartouche”

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

23. Egyptian Creation Myth
The Goddess Nut

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

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

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

27. Preparation for the Afterlife

28. 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.

29. 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.

30. Egyptian Book of the Dead

31. The Final Judgement
Anubis Horus Osiris

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

33. Stepped Pyramid at Saqqara

34. “Bent” Pyramid of King Sneferu

35. Giza Pyramid Complex

36. Plan of the Great Pyramid of Khufu

37. The Valley of the Kings

38. Archaeologist, Howard Carter (1922)

39. Entrance to King “Tut’s” Tomb

40. King Tutankhamon’s Death Mask
B. C. E.

41. King Tutankhamon

42. King Tutankhamun’s Tomb

43. Treasures From Tut’s Tomb

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

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

46. The Ankh – The “Cross” of Life

47. Queen Nefertiti

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

49. Who Are These Strange People?

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