Ancient Egypt PowerPoint

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Ancient Egypt

By Charlie Williamson, Rosie Lappin, Jack Johnston, Ryan Liggett, Lucy

Johns, Zoe Hylands and David Ruddell

Marvellous Mud

Floods from the River Nile left behind thick,

black mud. This was the perfect soil for

growing wheat, barley and veg. Egyptian

farmers also raised cattle, sheep, pigs and

geese.

Fun Fact

Egypt became a powerful

kingdom about 5,000 years

ago.

Buried Treasure

The Egyptians believed that dead people

went on to another life they filled their dead

rulers tombs with things they might need

in the next life like jewels and food.

Picture Writing

The Egyptians used a kind of picture writing

called hieroglyphics. Each picture stood for

a different word or sound. The pictures

were painted on to walls .

Word box

Falcon-A fierce hunting bird.

Fertlie-produces good crops.

Tomb-a special place were kings were buried.

Egyptian Make-up

Egyptians liked to look good. They wore

simple cloths and lots of jewels, powder and

round their eyes. They used blue and green

paint so that their brown eyes looked bigger

and brighter. They blackened their lashes

and painted their eye brows longer than

they really were.

Egyptian Pyramids

By Jonathan McElhinney,Luke Nicholl,Calum Kermath,

Shelley Walker, Adam Ovadia, Leah Heaney and Ryan Dawson

Pyramid facts • Did you know the great pyramid of Giza is the

most famous pyramid in the world.

• The first pyramid was built at Sakkara around

2700 B.C. for King Zoser by his vizier imhotet.

The great pyramid took

5,000 men to build it and took over 20 years to

Build. It is completely made from over 2.3

million blocks of stone.

The smallest pyramid is 73 metres high.

Photos of Pyramids

Egyptian Gods

By Rhys Whithorn , John Patience, Alexandra Warren,

Laura Jordan, Hannah Spence, Dylan McCauley and Alexander Seifert.

Facts about Gods

There are more than 2000 gods.

There is a god called osiris whose brother seth captured him and thrEW him in the river nile.

There are loads of other gods such as ra, hathor, sekhmet, nut, geb, horus, isis, thoth, anubis, ma’at, amun and bastet.

Our Research

The lion-headed Sekhmet. A goddess, whose

wrath was frightful and whose appetite for flesh was ravenous.

King khafre, protected by horus. This life size figure of the pyramid king is made of grained diorite.

our research [continued]

coptic christianity triumphed and

the last great symbol of the old

gods, the temple of isis at philae was

closed in 551 ad. The arrival of islam

in the 600s completed thE

transformation.

EGYPTIAN GOD PICTURES

HERE ARE SOME GODS.

iSIS

ISIS IS THE WIFE OF OSIRIS AND MOTHEr

OF Horus on her lap. Sometimes she

has a throne on her head, as she is

queen of the goddesses.

Egyptian Jewellery

By Dean Irvine, Millie Nunn, Joshua Savage, Grace Mckinley , Josh Mitchell, Olivia Jones and

Kaleb Tait

Egyptian Jewellery

Tutankhamun wore a golden bracelet with a

blue beetle on it.

Poor people wore jewellery made of shells.

• People wore jewellery on their necks.

sometimes on their foot and on their wrist.

• Jewellery was sometimes made from

shells, rocks and gold.

Egyptian Jewellery

• In Egypt men and women both wore

jewellery and sometimes children too!

• Some golden jewellery was really

expensive in Ancient times.

• Even men wore earrings too!

Photos of Egyptian Jewellery

We hope you enjoyed our

Ancient Egypt PowerPoint

By Primary 5 Mrs Williamson