ANCIENT EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION

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ANCIENT EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION
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HISTORY OF EGYPT

• The origins of ancient Egyptian civilization,
  which many regard as one of the fountainheads of
  Western culture, cannot be established with
  certainty. Archaeological evidence suggests that
  early dwellers in the Nile Valley were influenced
  by cultures of the Near East, but the degree of
  this influence is yet to be determined.
  Describing the development of Egyptian
  civilization, like attempts to identify its
  intellectual foundations, is largely a process of
  conjecture based on archaeological discoveries of
  enduring ruins, tombs, and monuments, many of
  which contain invaluable specimens of the ancient
  culture. Inscriptions in hieroglyphs, for
  instance, have provided priceless data.

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BELIEF IN LIFE

• Test on ones soul in order to win eternal life.
• Mummification was a way that the dead could be
  preserved for the afterlife and buried with
  everything they would need in the afterlife.
• Later we would see even ordinary people afforded
  mummification
• Curse of Tut, Myth or Truth?

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Egyptian skillz that killz

• Medicine Egyptian physicians believed in magic,
  but also studied symptoms, diagnosing illness and
  would find cures to disease.
• Did surgery, created medical manuals on papyrus,
  as well as prescribed medicine that is still used
  today.

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Writing Hieroglyphics

• Hieroglyphics is a form of picture writing.
• Paper was made of a plant near the Nile, called
  papyrus
• Rosetta Stone Stone with 3 forms of writing on
  it which was deciphered to under stand
  Hieroglyphics

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Art and Literature

• From tombs and wall paintings we know they
  Egyptians were very talented artisans
• Wrote many folk tale stories of battle as well as
  poems and songs.
• They would share these with their Sumerian
  neighbors.

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