BY TESS BRIMMER

LAND OF THE PHARAOHS

PEOPLE FARMES ALONG THE NILE AS EARLY AS 7000 B.C . I

IN 3100 B.C., MENES UNITED THE TWO KINGDOMS.

ANCIENT EGYPT WAS GOVERNED BY ON RULING FAMILY AFTER ANOTHER.

LEVELS OF SOCIETY

THE PHARAOH AND HIS FAMILY WERE AT THE TOP LEVEL SOCIETY.

THE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE UPPER CLASS WERE PRIESTS, DOCTORS, NOBLES AND HIGH RANKING ARMY OFFICERS

SCRIBES HELD A SPECIAL PLACE OF HONER. EVER FAMILY HOPED TO HAVE A SON WHO WOULD BE A SCRIBE.

LOVE AND MARRIAGE

EGYPTIANS WROTE BEAUTIFUL LOVE POEMA AND SONGS.

PHARAOHS WOULD KEEP SEVERAL WIVES, BUT ONE WIFE WAS CUSTOMARY FOR EVERY ONE ELSE.

WOMEN IN EGYPT HAD MORE RIGHTS THEN WOMEN TODAY.

HOMES, ADORNMENTS, AND GAMES

MOST PEOPLE LIVED IN SIMPLE HOUSES MADE OF MUD BRICKS.

PEOPLE SAT AND SLEPT ON WOVEN MATS ON THE FLOOR.

THEY KEPT THERE MAKEUP IN TINY BOWLS AND JARS.

ANCIENT CUISINE

EGYPTIANS ATE USING THE FIRST 3 FINGERS OF THERE HAND.

BREAD WAS A BASIC EVERYDAY FOOD.

IN MARSHY AREAS THEY SHOT DUCKS AND GEESE.

THE CYCLE OF FLOODS

EGYPTIANS DIVIDED THE YEAR INTO 3 SEASONS OF 4 MONTHS EACH

THE NEW YEAR BEGAIN WITH THE FLOODING OF THE NILE.

THE DRY SEASON, SHEMU, LASTED FROM MARCH TO JULY.

ANIMAL LIFE

ANCIENT EGYPT SWARMED WITH ANIMALS THAT BOW LONGER LIVE.

MANY ANIMALS WERE DRAWN IN HIEROGLYPHIC SYMBOLS AND SOME WERE HONORED BY GODS.

LIONS WANDERED IN FROM THE DESERT FOR WATER.

HIEROGLYPHS

EGYPTIANS WERE WRITING WITH PICTURE SYMBOLS.

WAVEY LINES STOOD FOR WATER AND A BIRD WAS A BIRD.

SOME HIEROGLYPHICS WERE HOMOPHONES.

LIFE EVERLASTING

THE AGE OF 110 WAS BELIEVED TO BE THE PERFECT LIFE SPAN.

PEOPLE IN THOSE DAYS DID NOT LIVE PAST THEIR THIRTIES.

EVERY EGYPTIAN BELIEVED IN LIFE AVTER DEATH.

MUMMIES

AFTER THE DEATH, THE BODY WAS MADE INTO A MUMMY.

FIRST, THE BODY WAS PACKED IN A SALT CALLED NATRON.

OTHER ORGANS WERE TREATED WITH HERBS.

PYRAMIDS

TO MAKE SURE THEY WOULD HAVE ETERNAL LIFE, PHARAOHS BUILT TOMBS FOR THEMSELVES.

THE EARLIEST PHARAOHS BUILT TOMBS CALLED MASTABAS.

4TH DYNASTY PHARAOHS BULT THE MOST FAMOUS PYRAMIDS-THE 3 PYRAMIDS OF GIZA.

HOW DID THEY BULT THE PYRAMIDS

THE EGYPTIANS LEFT ONKY A FEW CLUES ABOUT HOE THEY BULT THE PYRAMIDS.

THE BLOCKS WERE PROBABLY PUT ON RUNNERS.

100,OOO MEN WORKED ON THE PYRAMIDS.

KINGDOMS UNITE AND DIVIDE

THE HISTORY OF EGYPT MAY BE DIVIDED INTO 3 MAJOR PERIODS

MEMPHIS WAS EGYPT'S CAPITAL IN THEN OLD KINGDOM.

EVEN IN THIS EARLY PERIOD PEOPLE WERE MAKING PAPER FROM PAPYRUS.

THE NEW KINGDOM: CONQUESTS AND CONSTRUCTION

AHMOSE WAS A THEBAN PRINCE.

TO SHOW OFF THERE POWER, NEW KINGDOM PHARAOHS BULT HUGE TEMPLES.

THE TOMB SITES WERE ON THE WEST BANK OF THE NILE.

-TESS