Ancient Egypt

This website will tell you all about the Ancient Egyptians - scroll down to find out more

The Egyptian flag.

Did you know Egypt can be found in the African continent? Egypt has a population of around seventy-nine million people! The capital city of Egypt is Cairo and other famous cities are Aswan, Alexandria and El Gisa. Egypt's neighbouring countries are called Libya and Sudan.

You can see the green fertile land along the River Nile.

The river Nile floods every year and gives the soil nutrients. The Egyptians take this as their chance to grow crops. The River Nile runs right through Egypt.

Did you know the Great Pyramid of Giza was the biggest building for over 3800 years ? The first pyramids were built in 2650 BCE

Name = Mastaba

Year = 2650BCE

Description = It had sloping sides with a flat top.

Name=Step Pyramid

Year= 2600BCE

Description = It was built in squares South of Cairo

Name= Bent pyramid

Year =2590BCE

Description = With its two - angled shape , the Bent Pyramid is the only pyramid of it kind

Name = The Great Pyramid

Year = 2560BCE

Description = This pyramid is also known as Khufu. It is the largest of all all the pyramids.

Hieroglyphics

hieroglyphics are an ancient Egyptian way of communicating with others using symbols and pictures.

The word hieroglyphics comes from the Greek translation holy writing . The Rosetta stone took 20 years to translate.

The Rosetta Stone was found in 1799. It was important because it helped decode the hieroglyphics. The Rosetta Stone took 20 years to translate Egyptologist found three different languages:

Ancient Hieratic
Ancient Greek
Ancient Hieroglyphics

Can you translate the hieroglyphics?

Mummification

Egyptians believe that the mummification process was important because they wanted to get to to the Afterlife intact. The first way Egyptians preserved the body was to bury it in the sand. Unfortunately Animals would dig up the body and the body would be eaten or would be decay. the Egyptian's changed the mummification process by mummifying the body . firstly to take the body to the beautiful house slowly wash the body with water from the river Nile and some palm wine

Secondly make an incision on the left hand side of the body. Delicately remove the organs (lung liver and stomach) now get a long sharp hook and insert it through the nostrils push in the big brain and whisk it like a strawberry mixer and pull it out i the small nostrils

Then get a jar of crystal white natron (salt) and fill the body with natron and leave to dry for 50 days

After that we have to rewash the body again to remove the natron . spray some pretty perfume with lots of little spices to make the body smell beautiful

finally wrap the body with linen strips every where remember to use mummia. use an amulet and the book of the dad between the mummy to protect the body on its journey to the Afterlife

The Afterlife

Ancient Egyptians believed that when someone dies they will be sent to the Afterlife safely but not everyone got to the Afterlife.

It was a dangerous and scary journey. Find out why the book of the dead was so important and why your heart had been weighed.

How to get to the Afterlife:

First a tomb will be prepared by a priest. In it is placed the dead person's belongings like Shabti dolls, food and water. The priest will make a performance called opening of the mouth ceremony.

To get to the afterlife the body must tell 42 mummified Gods that the body has not committed any sins. The heart must go to be weighed by Amit. If the heart is heavier than Ma'at's feather the body will be devoured by Ammit if the heart is lighter the spirit will go to the Afterlife.

Now the spirit will go to the field of reads to look after the field and grow crops. The spirit will have servants what is shabti dolls the shabti dolls help grow the crops and help look after the felids.

Gods and Godesses

Gods and Godesses were important to the egyptians because they had all sorts of jobs. People used to worship to them to get help and advice about their life.

Thoth

Thoth was good at Giving people wisdom, writing and time,. Thoth was the god of hieroglyphics and communications. He had a mask of an Ibis (a sacred bird).

Anubis

Mummification and the afterlife was the job of Anubis. Priests often wore jackal heads in the mummification process.

Osiris

Osiris was the ruler of the underworld and the god of the dead. It was said Osiris taught the people to grow crops. He was the judge of the dead.

Ra

Ra was the god of the sun. Ra died every evening and was reborn every morning. He was the most important god.

Test your Knowledge of the Gods.

Who was the god of mummification?
Who was the ruler of the underworld?
Did Anubis wear an ibis head?
Who was the most important god?

Scroll to the end to check your answers...

Art work

These are our Egyptian pyramid pictures we created on purple mash. We got our inspiration from Van Gogh 'Starry night'.

Created by Demi

Created by Isabella

Created by Lacey

Created by Mathew

Answers to the god quiz:

Anubis
Osiris
No
Ra

Our Egypt song

In our music lessons we have been learning to play the Ukulele. Although this is not an ancient Egyptian musical instrument we have used it to accompany our Egyptian Song:

"What Shall We Do With A Mummified Pharaoh?"

We hope that you enjoy listening to our composition.

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