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Museum of Egyptian Culture
Instruments, Music and Dance
Games and Entertainment
Art
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• Chloe McCue Instruments, music and dance
• Junior McBride Games and entertainment
• Amanda Cullen Art

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Music

• At festivals they played many instruments like
  harps, drums, flutes, symbols and many more. They
  also had dancers that would leap and twirl and
  the people in the audience would dance and move
  to the rhythm.
• Simply clapping or the tap of a foot could be
  important music for the Egyptians.
• Music was heard in temples as part of worship.
• The earliest evidence of music traced back to
  3100 BC.

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Instruments

• The Egyptians used string instruments, wind
  instruments and percussion instruments.
• Egyptian instruments were played at religious
  festivals.
• The flute was created in the Old Kingdom.
• The invented something called a lute in Egypt
  during the New Kingdom.

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Dance

• Girls had to know how  to dance because at
  festivals people picked among the servants to
  dance in front of the crowd.
• Women who danced wore a kind of robe called a
  diaphanous robe or belt girdles made of beads.
• Training for dancers began when they were just a
  young child.
• The Egyptians danced at funerals in groups, not
  alone.
• Girls danced at classes as part of education.

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Games

• Board games were great past time in pharaoh's
  lives and senet was the most popular.
• Egyptian kids played with toy soldiers and dolls
  but they also loved chasing of birds.
• Boys were much rougher than girls.  

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Sports

• Girls were more into dolls wall boys were into
  outdoor sports like archery , wrestling, swimming
  and running.
• Egyptians had no organized sports but they did do
  wrestling, boxing, rowing, swimming, running and
  archery .
• The Egyptian kids loved to play football
  (soccer).

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Entertainment

• Big activities in Egypt were tug of war and they
  fenced with sticks
• Ancient Egyptian children played versions of
  leapfrog and hopscotch.
• Big activities for boys were fencing and soccer
  Football.

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Pottery

• In 7000 BC the use of pottery for ancient
  Egyptians had begun.
• Egypt created pottery before pyramids.
• They decorated the pottery with patterns.

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Hieroglyphics

• Hieroglyphics began 5000 years ago.
• After hieroglyphics they used a cursive writing
  called demotic.
• Only scribes were allowed to write.

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Paintings

• Ancient Egyptians drew things that were special
  to them.
• They used art to show their daily lives and work.
• Art was important to their culture.

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