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 __________.