The Ancient Middle East Part 2—Egypt

A View of Egypt by Satellite

The Fertile Nile Valley

The Annual Flooding of the Nile

Sirius, the Dog Star

Nile Irrigation-the Shaduf

Ancient Egyptian HistoryPeriods Time Frame

Nile Culture Begins

3900 B. C. E.

Archaic 3100 – 2650 B. C. E.Old Kingdom 2650 – 2134 B. C. E.

Middle Kingdom 2040 – 1640 B. C. E.New Kingdom 1550 – 1070 B. C. E.Late Period 750 – 332 B. C. E.

Greek Ptolemaic Era

332 – 30 B. C. E.

Roman Period 30 B. C. E. – 395 C. E.

Menes: Unifier of Upper & Lower Egypt

c 3050 BCE?

Ancient Egyptian Housing Middle

Class Homes

Peasant

Homes

Scenes of Ancient EgyptianDaily Life

Making Ancient Egyptian Beer

Making Ancient Egyptian Wine

An Egyptian Woman’s “Must-Haves”

Perfume

Whigs

Mirror

Egyptian Social Hierarchy

Some Famous Egyptian Pharaohs

Thutmose III

1504-1450 B. C. E. Ramses II

1279-1212 B. C. E.

Tutankhamon

1336-1327 B. C. E.

Egyptian Nobility

Egyptian Priestly Class

Egyptian Scribe

Papyrus Paper

Papyrus Plant

Hieratic Scroll Piece

Egyptian Math & Draftsmenship

1 10 100 1000 10,000 100,000 1,000,000

What number is this?

Champollion & the Rosetta Stone

Napoleon conquest in the early 1800s (France)

Hieroglyphic

“Cartouche”

Hieroglyphics “Alphabet” 24 “letters” + 700 phonetic

symbols

Egyptian Creation Myth

The Goddess Nut

Egyptian Gods & Goddesses:

“The Sacred ‘Trinity’”

Osiris Isis Horus

Preparations for the Underworld

Priests protected your KA, or soul-spirit

ANUBIS weighs the dead person’s heart against a feather.

Materials Used in Mummification

1. Linen 6. Natron2. Sawdust 7. Onion3. Lichen 8. Nile Mud4. Beeswax 9. Linen Pads5. Resin 10. Frankinsense

Preparation for the Afterlife

Egyptian Mummies

Seti I1291-1278 B.

C. E.Queen Tiye,

wife of Amenhotep II

1210-1200 B. C. E.

Ramses II1279-1212 B.

C. E.

Journey to the Underworld

A boat for the journey is

provided for a dead pharaoh

in his tomb.

The dead travel on the “Solar Bark.”

Egyptian Book of the Dead

The Final Judgement

Anubis Horus Osiris

Shabtis: The Pharaoh’s Servants

in the Afterlife

Stepped Pyramid at Saqqara

“Bent” Pyramid of King Sneferu

Giza Pyramid Complex

Plan of the Great Pyramid of Khufu

The Valley of the Kings

Archaeologist, Howard Carter (1922)

Entrance to King “Tut’s” Tomb

King Tutankhamon’s Death Mask

1336-1327 BC E

King Tutankhamon

King Tutankhamun’s Tomb

Treasures From Tut’s Tomb

The Valley of the Queens

Temple of Queen Hatshepsut

1473-1458 B. C. E.

Ankhenaton: First Monotheist?

1352-1336 B. C. E.

The Ankh – The “Cross” of Life

QueenNefertiti

Abu Simbel:Monument to Ramses II

1279-1213 B. C. E.

Who Are These Strange People?

Routes of the “Sea Peoples”

The end of the Bronze Age!