1. The Ancient
Middle East

2. 2. The Ancient
Egyptians

3. A View of Egypt by Satellite

4. The Fertile Nile Valley

5. The Annual Flooding of the Nile

6. Nile Irrigation

7. 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.

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

9. Ancient Egyptian Housing
Middle Class Homes
Peasant Homes

10. Scenes of Ancient Egyptian Daily Life

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

12. Egyptian Social Hierarchy

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

14. Papyrus  Paper
Hieratic Scroll Piece
Papyrus Plant

15. Champollion & the Rosetta Stone

16. Hieroglyphic “Cartouche”

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

18. Stepped Pyramid at Saqqara

19. “Bent” Pyramid of King Sneferu

20. Giza Pyramid Complex

21. Plan of the Great Pyramid of Khufu

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

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

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

25. Preparation for the Afterlife

26. 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.

27. 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.

28. Egyptian Book of the Dead

29. The Final Judgement
Anubis Horus Osiris