Ancient Egyptians

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Ancient Egyptians!
Ross - Year 6
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SLIDES!
Slide 1 Hieroglyphs Slide 2 The great
Sphinx Slide 3 Mummification Slide 4
Mummification Part 2 Slide 5 Mummification Part
3 Slide 6 Board games Slide 7 Canopic
jars Slide 8 Gods Goddesses Slide 9 Food!
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Hieroglyphics
Hieroglyphics can be read left to right or right
to left. The way to tell is to look at the way
the figures are facing. If they face left, they
will read left to right. If they face right they
will read right to left.
                                              
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The great Sphinx.
If someone walks by the sphinx, it would ask them
a riddle, "What has one voice, and yet goes from
four legs, to two legs, to three legs?"  The
answer is a man (he uses four legs when he is a
baby crawling on his hands and knees, two legs as
an adult walking, and three legs when he is old
and uses a cane). If the person answered the
riddle incorrectly, the sphinx would eat them. If
the person answered the riddle correctly, they
would be allowed to pass.
The great Sphinx in Giza, Egypt.
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Mummification!
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• First the person is taken to the purification
  place, the Ibu on the west side of the Nile. Here
  he is washed in a natron salt and water solution.
  It can now be taken to the Wabet, a mud brick
  building. Next, someone puts a long, sharp hook
• up his nose and jiggles it
  around, in
• turn, slicing up the brain.

Continued on the next Slide
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Mummification Continued
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• The body is next turned over to let the brain
  slices spill out, they are then thrown away. Now
  they stuff sawdust up the nose into the skull to
  take the place of the brain. After this an
  incision is made in the left side of the body and
  four organs are removed. These organs are Lungs,
  Stomach, Liver and Intestines. The organs are
  covered in natron salt then placed in the canopic
  Jars. (For more info on Canopic Jars see Slide 8)
  Now the body is cleaned with a solution of Palm
  wine and Spices. The body is now packed with
  straw in place of the four missing organs- this
  is also so that the body will keep its proper
  shape. The body is placed on a sloping table then
  covered in natron salt and

left to dry for 40 days. The reason that the
table is sloping is so all the water that the
salt extracts will run off.
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Mummification Continued

• After drying, the incision can be sealed up.
  This is done with hot wax then covered with a Two
  Finger amulet for protection. Now the body is
  covered in resin and wrapped in up to 375m of
  linen. Now, the mummy has his death mask put on
  then is taken off to the pyramid - his final
  resting place.

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Board games!
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• Did you know the Egyptians created board
  games? They made Senet, Checkers and dice!

Click here for an online Senet game!
This is not chocolate, it is an Egyptian board
game called Senet.
A board game called Senet.
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Canopic Jars.
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Food!
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• The Egyptians mainly eat wheat and barley.
• They used the barley to make beer to drink and
  used the wheat to make bread, porridge and soup.

They also eat garlic, fish, peas, onions, honey,
nuts and lots of other things!
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Gods And Goddesses.

• The Egyptians had many Gods and Goddesses,
  like Ra, the sun God, Geb, the God of the earth.
  These are just some here are some more

Appearance
Owner of
God/ Goddess
Dress with stars
Sky
Nut
Man with goose on head
Earth
Geb
Hawk head and sun disk on head
Sun
Ra
Man wearing feather headdress
Air
Shu
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Gods and others too!!
Mummified man with cone headdress
Dead
Osiris
Throne headdress
Protec- tion
Isis
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We hope you enjoyed our show!By Ross Y6