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Ancient Egypt
Presented by:
Mrs. Drake’s
2nd Grade
Researchers
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Sphinx
The Great Sphinx of
Giza is 4,500 years
old.
By: David
Sand has buried The
Great Sphinx up to his
neck after a sand storm.
By: Ramin
QUEENS
QUEEN
HATSHEPSUT
QUEEN HATSHEPSUT
She was the great woman ruler.
She built a temple next to a stone
cliff at Dar El Bahrain.
By: Lauren
QUEEN NEFERTITI
She ruled in the
Eighteenth Dynasty.
She became a
Pharaoh.
By: Kelly
Queen
Cleopatra
PHARAOH
means
The Great House or
A Ruler and a King.
By : Joshua
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A pharaoh was thought to be
the son of a god and the chief
priest. He made laws.
By: Joseph
KING TUT
He became pharaoh when he was
nine years old. He died when he
was 19 years old.
By: Nichole
The Explorers
Howard Carter found King Tut’s
tomb in 1922. They say that King
Tut’s curse first got Lord Canarvan
who was a member of the
exploration team. He died as a
result of a mosquito bite.
Lord Canarvan’s dog died at the same
time after letting out a big yelp.
By: Tommy
THE NILE
The Nile irrigates many acres of
land in Egypt and in its
neighboring country of Sudan.
The Nile is 4,132 miles long.
By: Christine
The Nile river flows through
steep canyons into the swamp
Lake Kyoga after leaving Lake
Albert on the border between
Uganda and Zaire.
By: Andrea
The Nile is the longest river in
the world.
It flows in the
northwest direction to drain
into the Mediterranean Sea.
By: Denver
GODS
The Sun god, Re was
their most worshipped
god.
Anubis is god of the
Underworld and Death.
By: Lauren
Egyptians made hundreds of gods.
Anubis weighed the heart against the
feather for truth and honesty.
By: Morgan
Horus
Anubis has a jackal face.
Most gods had human bodies and animal
heads.
Egyptians thought that many gods
were part of a huge family.
Horus and Maat were children of gods.
Anubis was the god who embalmed the
pharaoh’s bodies.
By: Samantha
PYRAMIDS
It took 20 years for Ancient Egyptians
to build a pyramid.
They build pyramids to bury the
pharaohs so they would have
a home for their afterlife.
By: Justin
The Great Pyramid is the only
Ancient Wonder of the world
which is still standing.
By: Zach
HIEROGLYPHICS
Hieroglyphics are picture symbols
that Ancient Egyptians used for
writing.
By: Justin
To make letters, Egyptians used
Hieroglyphics. They also used hieroglyphic
numbers.
By: Cinthya
CARTOUCHE
Ancient Egyptians wore a Cartouche
with a pharaoh’s name on it for
good luck.
I am wearing a Cartouche.
This is King Tut’s Cartouche
By: Alexandra
MUMMIES
MUMMIES
The Egyptians took the organs out but
left the heart in.
Then they wrapped the dead and put
the mummy in a sarcophagus.
By: Michael
It took 70 days to get the mummy
ready. Mummies are 3000 years
old. When you unwrap the
bandages, they stare at you.
By: Nicholas Hill
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FOOD
The Egyptians’ diet consisted of
bread, crocodiles, fish,
and fruits such as figs and dates.
By: Bryan
We used the following resources
to make our presentation:
*Microsoft Encarta 97 Encyclopedia
*Microsoft Ancient Land
*The Internet
http://guardians.net/egypt/tut1.htm
THE END
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