Transcript Egypt - Fulton County Schools

The Egyptians
Egypt is in Africa.
Find Egypt on the map.
Egypt is at the
top of Africa.
This is a view of
Egypt from outer
space. You can see
the Nile River
snaking through the
whole country; it is
very green around the
river, isn’t it? Only
around the Nile is
there fertile land; the
rest of Egypt is desert.
Ancient Egyptians had a highly developed
civilization. Their art reflected the complex
nature of their culture, especially their
religious beliefs.
The Egyptians made amazing
buildings and pyramids.
Tomb of Queen Hatshepsut, the only female pharaoh.
Tomb at Elkab
Pyramid and sphinx at Giza
It’s amazing how an
ancient culture could
build huge structures like
pyramids and temples
without using machines
like we do today.
How could they build
these huge columns?
How do you think the
ancient Egyptians put the
pyramids into place?
Egyptians were ruled
by kings called
pharaohs.
A lot of Egyptian art is about
pharaohs, because they were
considered to be not only kings, but
gods.
There are paintings found in tombs
and temples, telling stories about
pharaohs and their lives.
Notice the symbols at the top of this painting.
There are also many relief carvings
on the walls of tombs.
The paintings and carvings were
not only about the life of the
pharaoh, but about the Egyptians’
religious beliefs, as well.
Did you notice any odd looking
“people”?
Is this a pharaoh?
Nope; it’s a god called Horus.
Bastet was the god
who protected cats,
which were
considered sacred.
People worshiped
cats!
Thoth was the god
of wisdom. He also
is given the credit for
inventing the writing
form Egyptians used:
Hieroglyphics.
We’re going to look
at that type of
writing very soon.
Baba, the pet
baboon of
Thoth.
Baboons were
sacred, just like
cats.
This is Ra, the god of the sun.
A falcon, he has the sun on his head.
This is Osiris, the
god of the dead.
Anubis was a god who helped the dead.
Anubis is preparing a pharaoh for the afterlife.
What???? We’d better talk about this.
The Egyptians had really big ideas about
dying. They felt that you passed into an
afterlife, a world just like the one we live in
now, only made just for people who’d died in
this world.
How did you get to the afterlife?
First, you had to…die. Your life in
the afterworld was going to be long, so
you needed a good body that was in good
shape.
So they made you into a mummy!
Mummification meant that your body would
last for thousands of years in the after life.
Your body organs were removed, and you
were embalmed with fancy herbs and wrapped
up with all kinds of spices and amulets.
Your organs were put into pottery called canopic
jars.
Then they wrapped you up.
Just sleeping??
People even mummified pets and animals to
be there with them in the afterlife.
Mummified ox
Cat mummies
They took some pretty amazing things with
them, too.
These things are all from
the tomb of King
Tutankhamen.
It was a journey. You would go by boat.
So since you needed to make your way
there down the river, you got buried with a
boat. (And maybe even the guys to row it
for you.)
To make it easier, pharaohs had fancy
books made of papyrus to show the way,
and how to get there. It wasn’t like
anybody came back to tell you how to get
to the afterlife; better have a handbook!
Anubis holds the dead person’s hand to take him
to the afterlife. The heart gets weighed; those
whose hearts are light enough get to enter.
Thoth writes down your name in hieroglyphics,
and Horus takes you to meet Osiris. Better hope
you had a nice heart! Do you think you’d be
scared to meet Osiris? He looks kind of spooky.
That book was called
The Book of the Dead,
or
The Book of Going Forth by Day.
It told you everything you needed to
know about how to make it to the
afterlife and find a happy new life in
your new land.
There was an awful lot to know! Good
thing the gods could help you out.
It’s always good to have someone who
knows what to expect, so you can get
where you need to go or do what you
need to do.
It can be hard when you don’t know
what to do, when you are new. What if
you got lost? You might feel scared.
It’s good to have someone to hold your hand
when you’re trying to find your way.
How could you let new kids know what
to do when they get to Roswell North
Elementary School?
What if you had a book for them…not a
book of the dead, but a Book of the
School?
Your own Book of Going Forth by Day?
Choose a school situation that you can
illustrate, to show a new student how to
go about his or her day at
Roswell North.
What are the rules?
Who will they see?
Where should they go?
Your job is to make it easy for a new
student to find their way around the
school, so they don’t feel lost in a new
place.
Look at the Book of the Dead for
examples of what to put in your Book
of the School.