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Ancient Egypt: Culture
and Religion
Hieroglyphic
writing: consisted
of symbols and
drawings.
The Egyptians
used
algebra, geometry
and astronomy to
control floods.
The most important buildings were temples and
tombs.
Egyptian Art
Sculptures: were decorations on temple walls or
figures representing gods, pharaoh, nobles or
clerks
Paintings: were on the interior of tombs and
temples. The paintings were of everyday life or
religious themes.
Egyptians were polytheistic: they believed in
various gods
Some of the gods were half human, half animal
Egyptians believed in life after death.
Therefore, they practiced mummification: the
process of making human corpses into mummies
Mummification:
The _______ was extracted through the nose.
The mummified corpse was placed in the _______.
The organs of the dead were kept in __________.
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