Transcript Egypt By Jack T

The Pyramids
• The pyramids are the stone tombs
of Egypt's kings - the Pharaohs and
one of the world's greatest historical
mysteries. They have stood for
thousands of years, filled with many
hidden secrets: clues about what life
(and death) was like In Ancient
Egypt.
• The best way the ancient Egyptians knew how
to preserve a body was to mummify it. The
poor placed the bodies of their dead relatives
out in the sun, in the desert sand. The bodies
mummified naturally.
• Anyone who could afford it went to a
professional mummy maker. People wanted to
look their best in their afterlife.
MY NAME IN HIEROGLYPHICS
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• The ancient
Egyptians built
homes of sundried bricks, made
of mud and straw.
Their
homes
were
huge.
Homes
had flat
roofs.
People
often
sat
outside
on their
roofs in
the
evening
to watch
the
sunset
and
catch
the
evening
breeze.
Daily Life
• The ancient Egyptians were fascinating people, and
thanks to the movies, are often misunderstood. The
ancient Egyptians were not in love with death, but
with life! They enjoyed their life to the fullest. They
worked very hard, but saved time to enjoy family,
friends, music, parties, swimming, fishing, hunting,
sailing, and especially their children, all of which were
very important to the ancient Egyptians.
• In ancient Egypt, children were the heart of the family.
If a couple could not have a child, they adopted a
child.
Papyrus
• One of the many "Gifts of the Nile"
was a weed called papyrus. This
weed grew wildly along the shores of
the Nile River.
• The ancient Egyptians used papyrus to
make many things, such as baskets,
sandals, mats, rope, and paper!
Canopic jars
• Canopic jars were an important part of the
mummification process. The body's
internal organs were carefully stored in
these jars.
• There were always four jars, representing
the four sons of the god Horus - four
protective spirits - human, baboon, falcon,
and jackal.
MATHS
• The Egyptians
invented a decimal
system. They used
7 different
symbols.
• This Is very
Different Than
Math Today.
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The Egyptians invented a decimal system. They used 7
different symbols.
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1 was represented by a single stroke.
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10 was shown by drawing one hobble.
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100 was shown with a drawing one coil of rope.
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1,000 was represented by a drawing of one lotus plant.
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10,000 was shown as one finger.
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100,000 was represented by a drawing of one frog. (A
hieroglyphic of six frogs in a row would mean 600,000)
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1,000,000 was represented by the figure of a god with
raised arms
• Temples were the heart of the community.
• Kids went to school at the temple.
• The women came every day with temple offerings of food and
goods they had made. They stayed to chat and to market.
• The temples acted as hotels for important visitors from other
towns.
• Grain was stored in the temples so that it could be shared
with whomever needed it.
• People prayed to the temple gods for whatever they needed.
If their request was not granted, they might give the temple
statue a whack with a sturdy reed to let the temple god know
how they felt about it. For the most part, the ancient
Egyptians were not afraid of their gods at all.
GRAVE GOODS
• People in ancient Egypt fully expected to be assigned
jobs to do in their afterlife, just as they were assigned
jobs to do in their daily life. So nearly everybody made
little statues of people as part of their grave goods.
• To the ancient Egyptians, it made perfect sense to
create little statues that would do the work for them. It
was believed that when the deceased was called on to
do their share of the work in the afterlife, they could
send their little workers instead. That would leave
them free to sail the heavenly Nile or visit with friends
who had entered the afterlife.
• Hers is one of the most recognizable names in all
of human history. She was a female ruler in a
time of male kings. Her beauty was said to have
brought the world's most powerful men to their
knees. She was Cleopatra.
Cleopatra was the name of several women in
ancient Egypt. The most famous one was
Cleopatra VII, born in 69 B.C. in Alexandria. Her
father was Ptolemy XII, who was pharaoh when
Cleopatra was born.
• Grave robbing was the most horrible crime in
Ancient Egypt.
• Grave Robbers not only stole some-ones Wealth
But took their Chance To live happily In The AfterLife.
• When grave robbers broke into a tomb, they
often broke the cartouche when they opened the
coffin. They nearly always damaged the
mummified body in their haste to find treasures
buried within the fabric that wrapped it. This put
the Ba and the Ka at risk.
Artists & Craftsmen
• Craftsmen were appreciated rather than respected in ancient Egypt.
• Craftsmen were not allowed to sign their work. That's because several
craftsmen might work on one object. But even when only one artist
worked on something, they still could not sign it.
• A craftsman with skill usually enjoyed a very comfortable lifestyle.
Although their work was not signed, word did get around.
• The Egyptians had a unique way of drawing people.
• They drew heads, eyes, legs and feet positioned as if you were looking at
them from the side.
• They drew the shoulders and the chest as if you were looking at them
from the front.
• Men were usually drawn with dark colours.
• Women were usually drawn with light colours.
MAPS OF EGYPT
• Important jobs in ancient Egypt included soldiers, scribes,
artists, and peasants. Most jobs were inherited. If your father
was a farmer, so were you. But there were some exceptions to
the inherited job tradition.
• Anyone, for example, could become an artist if they had
exceptional talent. But most artists inherited their job from
their father.
• Another exception was a scribe. Anyone could learn to be a
scribe if they had the talent. Learning to be a script was a
complicated process. Scribes went to scribe school. Most who
attended did not pass the course.
• Legends have been told for many years about
the Great Sphinx. These stories tell about the
powers and mysteries of this sphinx. Some
people even believe that there are hidden
passageways or rooms underneath the Great
Sphinx, but nothing has been found yet.
• The beginning of one story about the Great
Sphinx is written on a stele between the
sphinx's paws.
• Tut was only nine years old when he became Pharaoh. He
was only 18 years old when he died. The people did not
have a lot of time to build Tut's tomb. Tut's tomb was very
small compared to the tombs of other pharaohs.
• Because his tomb was so small, it was overlooked for
thousands of years.
• In 1922, a British archaeologist named Howard Carter
entered King Tut's tomb. It was almost like entering a time
machine.
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Director: JACK TURBETT
Producer: JACK TURBETT
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