Kimberly Cross

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Ancient Egypt

• By
• Kimberly Cross

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Pharaoh

• A Pharaoh was the most important and powerful
  person in the kingdom. He was the head of the
  government and high priest of every temple. The
  people of Egypt considered the pharaoh to be a
  half-man, half-god. The Pharaoh owned all of
  Egypt.

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Pyramids

• The Pharaohs, the rulers of Egypt, built the
  pyramids as tombs for themselves. The Pharaohs
  built all the pyramids during the Old Kingdom, so
  that the greatest remains of Ancient Egypt are
  also some of the earliest to have been built.
• The first Pharaohs built simpler tombs, called
  mastabas. These mastabas were square buildings
  with a room inside for the coffin and the mummy
  and some things to take with you to the afterlife.

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Slaves of the Pharaoh

• The most famous story about Egyptian slaves is
  the one in the Bible about how the Jews were
  slaves in Egypt, about 1400-1200 B.C. Because the
  Egyptians had just conquered Israel at this time,
  probably many Jews were enslaved about
  this time. Then when the Egyptian New
  Kingdom collapsed, they stopped
  being able to enslave the Jews.

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Tutankhamun

• The most famous Egyptian pharaoh today
  
• is, without doubt, Tutankhamun. However,
  before the spectacular discovery of his almost
  intact tomb in the Valley of the Kings in
  November 1922, Tutankhamun was only a little
  known figure of the late 18th Dynasty.

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• Tutankhamun was probably born at Akhetaten which
  was the capital city of Egypt. He was born in
  about the year 1346 BC. He became pharaoh at the
  tender age of nine in 1337 BC and reigned during
  the 18th Dynasty when the Egyptian Empire was at
  its height. He reigned from about 1337 to 1328
  BC. 
• His tomb was
  discovered by a
  team of
  British
  archaeologists
  in 1922,
  nearly
  3000 years after
  his death.

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Cleopatra

• Cleopatra was the name of several women in
  ancient Egypt. The most famous one was Cleopatra
  VII, born in 69 B.C. in Alexandria. Her
  father was Ptolemy
  XII, who was pharaoh
  when Cleopatra was born.

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