3. The Arab Republic of Egypt is
a transcontinental country
located at the northeast corner
of Africa and southwest corner
of Asia.
Egypt has one of the longest
histories of any country,
tracing its heritage along the
Nile Delta back to the 6th–4th
millennia BCE.
4. Ancient Egyptian literature comprises a wide
array of narrative and poetic forms including
inscriptions on tombs, stele, obelisks, and
temples; myths, stories, and legends; religious
writings; philosophical works; wisdom
literature; autobiographies; biographies;
histories; poetry; hymns; personal essays; letters
and court records.
These texts were written in hieroglyphics
("sacred carvings") a writing system combining
phonograms (symbols which represent sound),
logograms (symbols representing words), and
ideograms (symbols which represent meaning or
sense).
6. Cleopatra is a 1963 epic historical
drama film directed by Joseph L.
Mankiewicz, adapted from the 1957
book “The Life and Times of
Cleopatra” by Carlo Maria
Franzero.
It chronicles the struggles of
Cleopatra, the young queen of
Egypt, to resist the imperial
ambitions of Rome.
CLEOPATRA
10. “'Impossible to Tell' is an elegy for my friend,
Elliot Gilbert, who loved telling jokes and knew
a million of them. And at about the same time
Elliot died through the blunder the doctors
made, they made a mistake, they didn't detect
their mistake and then they lied about their
mistake - that was the end of Elliot. At about
the same time that we in Berkeley were
grieving that, my friend Bob Hass was finishing
his wonderful anthology of haikus. And I was
reading Bob's introduction which really made
me understand haikus for the first time -
among other things it's part of a social evening,
part of a longer renga, a collaborative form
where people inspire one another to contribute
stanzas.” – Robert Pinsky
IMPOSSIB
LE TO
TELL
12. The Egyptian (Sinuhe egyptiläinen, Sinuhe the
Egyptian) is a historical novel by Mika Waltari.
The Egyptian is the first and the most
successful of Waltari's great historical novels,
and that which gained him international fame.
It is set in Ancient Egypt, mostly during the
reign of Pharaoh Akhenaten of the 18th
Dynasty, whom some have claimed to be the
first monotheistic ruler in the world.
The novel is known for its high-level historical
accuracy regarding the life and culture of the
period depicted. At the same time, it also
carries a pessimistic message of the essential
sameness of flawed human nature.
THE
EGYPTlAN
14. The Mind of Egypt: History and
Meaning in the Time of the Pharaohs
by Jan Assmann is a breakdown of
how the Ancient Egyptian belief
system worked, with examples of
Egyptian literature, artwork, hymns,
and various inscriptions.
It covers nearly the entirety of the
history of Ancient Egypt, from
predynastic to post-pharaonic.
Jan Assmann is a fairly big name in
the world of Egyptology.
THE MIND OF EGYPT
15. The ancient Egyptians viewed literature as a
source of spiritual nourishment and a unique
way to elevate style of expression.
Ancient Egyptian literature tackled almost all
aspects of life.
The ancient Egyptians believed that it was
important to record and communicate
information about religion and government.
Thus, they invented written scripts that could
be used to record this information. The most
famous of all ancient Egyptian scripts is
hieroglyphic.
Egypt has one of the longest histories of any
country and contributed a lot to civilization.
16. EgypTrivia
What word that is in
Rockwell font and color green
has been appearing multiple
times in the past slides?
