1. Susan M. Pojer
Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY
Susan M. Pojer
Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY

3. A View of Egypt by Satellite

4. The Fertile Nile Valley

5. The Annual Flooding of the Nile

6. Nile Irrigation-the Shaduf

7. Ancient Egyptian History
Periods TimeFrame
Nile Culture Begins 3900 B. C.
Archaic 3100 – 2650 B. C.
Old Kingdom 2650 – 2134 B. C.
Middle Kingdom 2040 – 1640 B. C.
New Kingdom 1550 – 1070 B. C.
Late Period 750 – 332 B. C.
GreekPtolemaic Era 332 – 30 B. C.
Roman Period 30 B. C. – 395 A.D.

8. Menes: Unifierof Upper& LowerEgypt
c. 3050 B. C.

9. Ancient Egyptian Housing
Middle Class
Homes
Peasant
Homes

10. Scenes of Ancient Egyptian
Daily Life

11. Making Ancient Egyptian Beer

12. Making Ancient Egyptian
Wine

13. An Egyptian Woman’s “Must-
Haves”
Perfume
Whigs
Mirror

14. Egyptian Social Hierarchy

15. Some Famous Egyptian
Pharaohs
Thutmose
III
1504-1450 B. C.
Ramses II
1279-1212 B. C.
Tutankhamon
1336-1327 B. C.

16. Egyptian Nobility

17. Egyptian Priestly Class

18. Egyptian Scribe

19. Papyrus  Paper
Papyrus Plant
Hieratic
Scroll Piece

20. Egyptian Math & Draftsmenship
11 1010 100100 10001000 10,00010,000 100,000100,000 1,000,0001,000,000
What numberis this?

21. Champollion & the Rosetta
Stone

22. Hieroglyphic
“Cartouche”

23. Hieroglyphics “Alphabet”
24 “letters” + 700 phonetic symbols

24. Egyptian Creation Myth
The Goddess Nut

25. Egyptian Gods & Goddesses:
“The Sacred ‘Trinity’”
Osiris Isis Horus

26. Preparations forthe Underworld
Priests protected
yourKA, orsoul-
spirit
ANUBIS weighs the
dead person’s heart
against a feather.

27. Materials Used in Mummification
1. Linen 6. Natron
2. Sawdust 7. Onion
3. Lichen 8. Nile Mud
4. Beeswax 9. Linen Pads
5. Resin 10. Frankinsense

28. Preparation for
the Afterlife

29. Egyptian Mummies
Seti I
1291-1278 B. C. Queen Tiye, wife
of Amenhotep II
1210-1200 B. C.
Ramses II
1279-1212 B. C.

30. Journey to the Underworld
A boat forthe
journey is
provided fora
dead pharaoh in
his tomb.
The dead travel
on the “Solar
Bark.”

31. Egyptian Bookof theDead

32. The Final Judgement
Anubis Horus Osiris

33. Shabtis: The Pharaoh’s Servants
in the Afterlife

34. Stepped Pyramid at Saqqara

35. “Bent” Pyramid of King
Sneferu

36. Giza Pyramid Complex

37. Plan of the Great Pyramid
of Khufu

38. The Valley of the Kings

39. Archaeologist, Howard Carter(1922)

40. Entrance to King “Tut’s” Tomb

41. King Tutankhamon’s Death Mask
1336-1327 B. C.

42. King Tutankhamon

43. King Tutankhamun’s Tomb

44. Treasures FromTut’s Tomb

45. The Valley of the Queens
Temple of Queen Hatshepsut1473-1458 B. C.

46. Ankhenaton: First Monotheist?
1352-1336 B. C.

47. The Ankh – The “Cross” of
Life

48. Queen
Nefertiti

49. Abu Simbel:
Monument to Ramses II
1279-1213 B. C.

50. Who Are These Strange People?

51. Routes of the “Sea Peoples”
The end of the Bronze Age!