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The Ancient Middle East Part 2—Egypt . 2. The Ancient Egyptians. 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 History. Menes: Unifier of Upper & Lower Egypt. c 3050 BCE?. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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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!