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| flows north to the Mediterranean Sea |
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the watering of land by artificial means to foster plant growth and farming.
Egyptians used this to increase the amount of their fertile land in order to grow more food. So, they dug ditches to carry the Nile flood waters into a larger area and built dikes to hold the water on the land. |
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| sold into slavery by his brothers |
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many built 3000 years before Christ
Huge structures built by the Pharaohs |
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| The Great Pyramid with temples and other buildings that covers 13 acres of ground. One of the seven wonders of the world. The ONLY Ancient Wonder that still exists. |
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| The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World |
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| The Great Pyramid of Giza, The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, The Statue of Zeus at Olympia, The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, The Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus, The colossus of Rhodes, and the Lighthouse of Alexandria |
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| After death experts carefully embalmed the body with spices and oils. Then, they wrapped it in several layers of linen cloth. Next, the body was placed in a casket, or case, that was shaped and painted to look like a man. |
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| "paper" that the Egyptians invented from a plant that grew along the banks of the Nile River. |
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| an Egyptian writer that used an ink made from water, soot and certain vegetables. His "pen" was a pointed reed slit at the end |
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a stone slab found in 1799 by Napoleon's soldiers digging trenches near the town of Rosetta at one of the mouths of the Nile.
Three writings were on the stone: hieroglyphics, Egyptian script, and Greek. A French scholar used this to help decipher hieroglyphic - took many years... in 1822 he announced that he had done it! |
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Earth Measure.
Egyptians developed to allow them to know where boundaries were located after floods. |
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Star Arrangement
from the Egyptian observations of the stars they developed a calendar with 365 days divided into 12 months |
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Very early in their history they built boats to ship their goods up and down the Nile. Later they built stronger boats and ventured into the Mediterranean Sea.
Later building a Canal so they could travel to the lands on the Red Sea. |
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They brought pottery, linen, grains, leather, and cotton cloth.
They received spices, gems, perfumes, ivory, gold, and rugs. |
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