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Ancient Egyptian’s Technology

Ancient Egyptian’s Technology. By: Rachel Bricker. Writing. The Egyptian’s writing paper was made from Cyprus papyrus. There was no paper to write on until the Egyptians invented it. Cyprus papyrus is a tree. The Egyptians used hieroglyphics.

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Ancient Egyptian’s Technology

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  1. Ancient Egyptian’sTechnology By: Rachel Bricker

  2. Writing • The Egyptian’s writing paper was made from Cyprus papyrus. • There was no paper to write on until the Egyptians invented it. • Cyprus papyrus is a tree. • The Egyptians used hieroglyphics. • Hieroglyphics were mainly used for religious texts or royal texts. • Were generally carved in stone. • Many of the Egyptian’s 720 hieroglyphics were nouns and the vowels weren’t written out.

  3. Boats on the Nile • Boats were mainly used to transport cargo. • Their cargo ranged from obelishs to cattle. • The boats were very long and took many people to row them.

  4. Pyramids • Stone saws were used to build pyramids. • Pyramids were the tombs for the dead. • Were made so tough and tight that not a tornado nor a hurricane can blow them down 400 years later.

  5. Clocks and Time • Had sundials which required sun to work so they made the water clock. • The water clock is a device that uses water to measure time. • Their calendar was 365 days, 10 days a week, 3 weeks per month, 4 months in a season, and a 3 season year.

  6. Tools • The first tools used were made out of copper and then changed to using bronze tools. • After using bronze tools for a while, the they changed to iron tools. • These tools were used to build pyramids. • Stone saws were also used to build pyramids. • When the blade was held steady, you could make parallel cuts. • Minerals such as beryl, topaz, chrysoberyl, corundum, sapphire, or diamond were used as cutting points because they were so strong.

  7. Pictures

  8. Quotes • “The Egyptians invented writing paper.” Ancient Egypt by: Geraldine Harris pg 22 caption • “There were two types of clocks in ancient Egypt- a water clock and a sundial.” Thinkquest.org pg 1 para 9 • “Straight saws varied from 0.03 in thick to 0.2 in thick.” Theglocaleducationproject.org para 7 • “The hieroglyphic script has about 750 signs” Ancient Egypt by: Geraldine Harris pg 23 hieroglyphic and other script

  9. References • Ancient Egypt by: Geraldine Harris • Thinkquest.org • Theglobaleducationproject.org

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