1. Ancient Egypt

2. Nile River: “The Gift of Egypt”

3. Fertile Nile Valley
Annual Flooding (Inundation)

4. Nile Irrigation – the Shaduf

5. Ancient Egyptian Timeline
Periods
Time Frame
Archaic
3100 – 2650 B. C.
Old Kingdom
2650 – 2134 B. C.
Middle Kingdom
2040 – 1640 B. C.
New Kingdom
1550 – 1070 B. C.
Late Period
750 – 332 B. C.
Ptolemaic Era
332 – 30 B. C.
Roman Period
30 B.C. – 395 A.D.

6. Narmer Unifies Egypt
ca B.C.

7. Mastaba and Zoser’s Pyramid

8. Imhotep’s Innovations
Meidum Pyramid (My-Doom)
Bent Pyramid

9. Sneferu’s RedPyramid

10. Giza Pyramid Complex

11. Afterlife
Anubis weighs the dead person’s heart against the feather of truth, with Thoth recording the results
The dead travel on the “Solar Bark” of Aten.

12. Mummies Canopic jars for the stomach, intestines, liver and lungs
19th Dynasty Pharaohs from B. C. E.

13. Materials for Mummies
1. Linen Natron 2. Sawdust Onion 3. Lichen Nile Mud 4. Beeswax Linen Pads 5. Resin Frankinsense

14. The Egyptian “Trinity”
Isis
Osiris
Horus

15. The Evil Uncle
Set

16. Ancient Egyptian Power Pyramid

17. Only members of the royal family had their names in a carotuche
Royal Cartouche
Only members of the royal family had their names in a carotuche

18. KUSH – Land of Gold and Archers

19. 24 “letters” + 700 phonetic symbols
Hieroglyphs
24 “letters” phonetic symbols

20. Egyptian Math and “Artists”1 10
100
1000
10,000
100,000
1,000,000
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