Ancient Egypt formed around 3000 BC along the fertile Nile River valley. Egyptian culture greatly influenced modern society, especially in the areas of medicine, jewelry-making, and mathematics. Egyptians pioneered early forms of surgery, dentistry, and herbal remedies. Their jewelers crafted beautiful pieces using chisels and abrasive wheels. Egypt also developed one of the world's earliest numerical systems, which the Greeks later adopted. These cultural and technological innovations from ancient Egypt still impact various aspects of modern life today.

1. Ancient Egypt:
Influences of Ancient
Cultures On
Modern Day Society
By: Brittney Bell

2. Ancient Egypt
• Formed 3000 B.C. in North Eastern Africa
• Located on the Nile River and the surrounding
desserts
• Center for farming and agricultural trade
• Organized structured authoritarian government
• Society and culture greatly influenced on modern
day life

3. Egyptian Culture
The landmarks of humankinds first civilizations
would result in supplies traded
Different ways Egyptian people used to treat sick
people such as different medicines and remedies
the Egyptians used. Jewelers made beautiful
pieces of jewelry to sell to the people and
kingdom. Also communication such as writing to
better keep track of different document, and to
keep up with dates and price goods.
These steps are an advancement of man and all
of these different things are still used today
upholding their importance.

4. Influences on modern day
culture
Medical
Jewelry
Greek Numbers

5. Beginnings of Medicine
Started at the Nile shores of
Mediterranean.
Medical documents describing
trauma surgery and the diagnoses
and treatment of injuries
Evidence of Denistry including the
creation and use of false teeth
Medicine was not magic but
science: “ observation , Diagnosis,
and Treatment.”(serageldin,1)
The greatest tradition of ancient
Egyptian Medicine was maintained
for Millennia.(serageldin,1)

6. Beginnings of Medicine
Alexandrian Medicine
228-300 CE
A famous medical
school was established
in old Alexandria during
the third century
BCE.(serageldin,7)
Anatomy was
particularly advanced
due to the possibility of
dissecting humans.
The most important
Alexandrian physicians
were Herophilus and
erasistratus.(serageldin
,7)

7. Master Jewelers
Beautiful gemstones
artifacts span the history
of ancient Egypt.
Little is known for the
working practices of the
Egyptian gem workers.
Copper and bronze
chisels can only
effectively cut soft stones
without causing damage
to the tool.(whytock,44)

8. Master Jewelers
Whilst some of todays gemstone
workers (lapidaries) rub stones
back and forth against a rough
surface to create a shape, most
abrade gemstone material against
a wheel. (Whytock,44)
The wheel has a number of
advantages, object can be
produced in hours, gives a superior
finish and finer polish
Fine dust created as a by –product
of Wheel-working can be used for
polishing objects. (Whytock,44)

9. Numbers are
represented in Greek
classical inscriptions I
two different ways such
as acrophonic and
Greek alphabetic
system.
Acrophonic is named
because the signs to
represent five and
multiples of 10 are
taken from the first
letters of the
appropriate Greek
numeral.
(chrisomalis,485)
Egyptian numerical system
used by the Greeks.

10. Egyptian numerical system
used by the Greeks.
• Three distinct numeral notations
systems were used in ancient Egypt:
the hieroglyphic, the hieratic and
demotic. (chrisomalis,489)
• The middle kingdom groups of sign
became condensed into single
ciphers, so that the hieroglyphic for
300 was in old kingdom hieratic but
in middle kingdom and later
hieratic.(chrisomalis,489)

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Chrisomalis, Stephen. "The Egyptian Origin Of The
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