1. Timelines & Belief in the Afterlife

2. Understanding Timelines
Ancient Egyptian history is divided up into Kingdoms: Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom.
Between these kingdoms are Intermediate Periods. This is when Egypt is invaded or experiencing problems.

3. Dynasties Ancient Egyptian history is also divided up into dynasties.
A dynasty is when one family is ruling in ancient Egypt. Each pharaoh is related to the pharaoh that ruled before him.
There are 31 dynasties in ancient Egyptian history.
The dynasties end when Alexander the Great (a Greek) invades Egypt in 332 BCE
One of the last Egyptian pharaohs is Cleopatra

4. Dynasties

5. Beliefs in the Afterlife

6. Afterlife Egyptians believed the soul was made up of several parts:
Ba: watched over the living family
Ka: went on to the afterlife; accepted offerings
Ren: the soul’s name
At night the parts of the soul would be reunited at the deceased body to prepare for the next day.

7. Afterlife
If the body was destroyed, they soul of the dead would be lost forever. This is why Egyptians preserved the bodies of the dead (mummies).
Without their bodies, the dead pharaohs would not be able to help to stabilize the living world.
This is why looting burials in ancient Egypt was a crime punishable by death.

8. Afterlife
Egyptians believed that in the afterlife, you continued jobs that you had in life.
Egyptians were buried with statues of helpers and tools to help them continue in their jobs.
Egyptian priests left offerings to the dead.