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Middle or High School
EGYPTIAN Civilization
Middle and High School
History
By
Sandra Baazaoui
Why do we learned about the
Egyptian Civilization?
• This civilization was one of the first and
oldest civilization that we know of.
• They were a group of people who lived in
Egypt more than five thousand years ago.
• They were able to start a civilization
because they were able to grow and built so
many things that helped them survive and
expand. This was because they live along
the riverbank of the Nile River (the longest
river of the world).
What were the Pyramids and what
did they meant for this Civilization?
• They were gigantic tombs. Built along the
desert and the first one was built by a priest
named Imhotep for King Zoser.
• This were burial tombs for pharaohs, queens
and nobles.
• Inside them were secret mazes of galleries
leading to rooms where the pharaoh’s
mummy coffin lies.
Gods and Goddesses of Egypt
• Some of their famous Gods and Goddesses
who they believed watch over them where
Ra (the sun god), Thoth (moon god)Isis
(first queen), Osiris (first king), Horus (son
of Osiris/Isis), Anubis, and Hathor just to
mention a few. This gods all have their own
temple.
Why did they had Mummification?
• Egyptians believed in life after death and
mummification was the best way they knew how
to preserved the body from decaying.
• Only pharaohs (Egyptian rulers) and nobles were
mummified. Egyptians believed pharaohs became
gods after death.
• The whole body was cover with cloth and the face
was cover with a mask and then the mummy was
placed in a coffin.
What is happening now to this
civilization?
• Like many of the early civilizations the Egyptian
Civilization was attack by empires that kept taking
their land.
• The Nile River is still the lifeblood of Egypt but
its floodwater are now regulated by high dam.
• Their gods and goddesses are just memories now.
• The government is now headed by a president and
a People’s Assembly instead of a god/goddesses or
king and queen.
Related Websites
• www.ancientegypt.co.uk (British Museum)
• www.metmuseum.org (Metropolitan
Museum of New York)
• www.eyelid.co.uk (Egyptian Videos)
References
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www.google.net
www.dictionary.com
http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk
Osborne, Will and Osborne Mary Pope
Mummies and Pyramids p.14,47,58
• Video “Ancient Egypt I”