Transcript Egypt by liam - Allenwood BNS

It began 5000 years ago and lasted 3000 years on the banks of
the river Nile.
Each Autumn heavy downpour flooded the river Nile and
when it went down it left behind rich thick mud.
Farmers planted their crops in this and that is how Egypt
grew.
Most Egyptians live in dried mud brick huts which had 3
to 4 rooms.
 Wealthy people lived in houses with 70 or more rooms.
They had small windows to keep out the sun’s heat.
They also used wet mats to keep the air cool.
They ate beer made from mashed stale bread,
Bread made with wheat,
Beef, geese fish,
Onions and leeks.
Archaoelogists have found wine jars so they might have drank
wine.
Dried pieces of fruit have been found in tombs.
Model bee hives in tombs suggest that they used it to sweeten.
They ate their food with fingers.
Pharaohs were the most powerful and important people in Egypt.
They ruled all the land in Egypt.
Pharaohs, when they died, were put into tombs where they had their
personal goods for the next life.
One Pharaoh ruled since he was 6 years old until he 100.
This was unusual beacause the average age was 30.
They wore a crown which was a mix of the two old
crowns.
They were often portayed with a crook and flail.
Priests prayed for them every day.
The Egyptians fought to protect their valuable goods and to take other
countries goods.
The army was made up of only men and they mainly wore a skirt and
sandals.
Officers led the army and wore leather armour with pieces of metal in them
to strengthen it.
Rich officers wore a helmet.
Slave women were captured in the wars.
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Hieroglyphics were a type of picture-writing.
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Egyptian priests wrote hieroglyphics on the walls of temples.
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There was more than 700 hieroglyphics.
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Rich children were thought these and they were punished if they didn’t
learn them fast enough.
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Hieroglyphics took long to learn.
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Hieroglyphics was writen on papyrus, a type of paper.
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Khufu ordered the pyramid to be built.
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It took 20 years and it was done using 2 million limestone blocks.
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Each block weighed nearly 400 men..
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More than 100,000 people worked at it.
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It was hard because they had no cranes, pulleys or tractors.
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The sphinx is a statue which has the head of a pharaoh and the
body of a lion.
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Both of these monuments are in Giza.
First embalmers are called to wash the body with oil
and a priest reads from the ‘Book Of The Dead’.
Next the brain is pulled out bit by bit through the
nose using a long bronze hook. The brain is dried in
natron ,wrapped in gum, bandaged up and put in a jar.
After this they do the same to the other organs.
When that’s finished they dry it in natron and the
body is filled with dust, cloth and sand.
After 40 days the hole is covered with a lucky eye of
horus charm. Then oils are rubbed into the skin.
They then afterward wrap the body in cloth with
charms in between each layer.
Finally they make the death mask, put the body into
the wooden coffin, put the death mask on and seal the
coffin with wax.
On the 4th of November 1922 Howard Carter discovered Tutankhamen’s tomb after
searching in The Valleys Of The Kings.
Tutankhamen was eight when he became pharaoh and he died at the age of eighteen.
Grave robbers have broken in but only the outer chamber, where the body was not
kept, so his body and his personal items were still intact.
There were four chmabers with valuable items in them.
There were 2000 things in the four rooms, a lot of them are made of gold.