The Ancient Egyptians

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The Ancient Middle East
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A View of Egypt by Satellite
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The Fertile Nile Valley
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The Annual Flooding of the Nile
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Nile Irrigation-the Shaduf
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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.
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Menes Unifier of Upper Lower Egypt
c. 3050 B. C. E. ?
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Ancient Egyptian Housing
Middle Class Homes
Peasant Homes
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Scenes of Ancient EgyptianDaily Life
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Making Ancient Egyptian Beer
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Making Ancient Egyptian Wine
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An Egyptian Womans Must-Haves
Mirror
Perfume
Whigs
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Egyptian Social Hierarchy
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Egyptian Nobility
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Egyptian Priestly Class
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Egyptian Scribe
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Papyrus ? Paper
Hieratic Scroll Piece
Papyrus Plant
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Egyptian Math Draftsmenship

1 10 100 1000 10,000 100,000 1,000,000
What number is this?
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Champollion the Rosetta Stone
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Hieroglyphic Cartouche
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Egyptian Gods GoddessesThe Sacred Trinity
Osiris Isis
Horus
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Preparations for the Underworld
ANUBIS weighs the dead persons heart against a
feather.
The Ba of Nefetari
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Preparation for the Afterlife
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Egyptian Mummies
Ramses II1279-1212 B. C. E.
Seti I1291-1278 B. C. E.
Queen Tiye, wife of Amenhotep II1210-1200 B. C.
E.
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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.
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Egyptian Book of the Dead Opening of the Mouth
Ceremony
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The Final Judgement Test of the Heart and Feather
Anubis Horus
Osiris
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Shabtis The Pharaohs Servants in the
Afterlife
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Stepped Pyramid at Saqqara by Djoser
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Bent Pyramid of King Sneferu
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Giza Pyramid Complex
By Cheops, Khaffre, Menaukre
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Plan of the Great Pyramid of Khufu
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The New Kingdoms Agenda
I (Amun) gave you valour and victory over all
lands. I set your might, your fear in every
country, The dread of you as far as heavens four
supports. I magnified your awe in every body I
made your persons fame traverse the Nine
Bows. (From Thutmose IIIs Tomb)
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Famous Egyptian Pharaohs
Hatshepsut1479-1458 B. C. E.
Ramses II1279-1212 B. C. E.
Akhenaton 1380-1362 BCE
Thutmose III1504-1450 B. C. E.
Tutankhamun1336-1327 B. C. E.
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The Valley of the Kings the New Kingdom
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The Valley of the Queens
Temple of Queen Hatshepsut
1473-1458 B. C. E.
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Relief of Hatshepsuts Expedition to the Land of
Punt
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Ankhenaton Another Monotheist?
1352-1336 B. C. E.
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QueenNefertiti
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Archaeologist, Howard Carter (1922)
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Entrance to King Tuts Tomb
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King Tutankhamons Death Mask
1336-1327 B. C. E.
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King Tutankhamon
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King Tutankhamuns Tomb
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Treasures From Tuts Tomb
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The Ankh The Cross of Life
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Abu SimbelMonument to Ramses II
1279-1213 B. C. E.
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Kadesh and Exodus
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Who Are These Strange People?
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Routes of the Sea Peoples
The end of the Bronze Age!