Explore Ancient Egypt

1. Explore Ancient Egypt Kiran Azeem Dil Mehran School

2. How old it the egyptian civilization? Around 3300 B.C.E. was the first recorded Civilization in India. they coluld get beetween 60-110 years old.The hieght of ancient civilization 350 b.C.e

3. How did the people live in ancient Egypt? The wealthy of ancient egypt lived good they would normally live in big fancy for back then houses and usually in the country away from all the noise. The slaves did lead very hard lifes if they were miners or something like that they would hurt and it would be bad. The poor lived in the city normally in these little apartment buildings that were stinky smelly and just gross something that i would never live in.

4. Who were Pharaohs? Who was King Tut? Pharaoh's were the rulers of Ancient Egypt. There were either one or two Pharaohs in Egypt. Lower Egypt- Wore a red crown. Area between Memphis and nothwards towards the Nile Delta. Upper Egypt- Wore a white crown. Area between Memphis and southwards to Thebes. Upper and Lower Egypt- Wore both the red and white crown. Covered all of Egypt. The Pharaohs decided what they wanted to have built such as pyramids or temples. They chose how they cared for their people and their slaves. the most well known of famous Egyptian pharaohs is Tutankhamen, commonly referred to as King Tut.

5. How many Pyramids are known today from ancient Egypt? Why were they built? There are actually over 100 pyramids in Egypt, the pyramids were built by Egyptian workmen for their pharaoh.Countless pyramids had been built. The 3 most famous are in Giza. Other notable pyramids include the Red and Step Pyramids.

6. What kind of craftsmen were there in ancient Egypt? • DRAFTSMEN were scribes who specialized in drawing. • They followed a formula that makes standing and sitting figures look stiff. • Using a traditional grid of 18 squares, they sketched figures according to a predetermined pattern, making no attempt to show perspective. • The eyes and shoulders are drawn from the front and the face, torso, arms and legs

7. What were Hieroglyphics? Hieroglyphs means "sacred-drawings" in Greek,  and that's pretty much what hieroglyphs are. The Egyptians used them to write with from the beginning of anybody being able to write, around 3000 BC, down to about 300 AD. Between about 3000 BC and 300 BC, the Egyptians used hieroglyphics for all different kinds of writing. But after the Greeks conquered Egypt under Alexander the Great, people began to use the Greek alphabet to write the Egyptian language. Then hieroglyphs were only used for religious things (ta hiera in Greek), things that were too holy for the ordinary Greek alphabet, which is why they are called "sacred-drawings." By 300 AD, as people converted to Christianity, there was no longer any religious use for hieroglyphs, and they went out of use altogether.

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