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Egypt

 

1) Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies and they all wrote in hydraulics. They lived in the Sarah Dessert. The climate of the Sarah is such that all the inhabitants have to live elsewhere.

Anonymous 6th grader's answer to a history test.

Egypt 1350-1069 BCE Main Periods
3000 BCE to as late as 30 BCE. This is much longer than Jericho, Ur, and Uruk.

Lower Egypt :Giza Middle Egypt: Memphis Upper Egypt: Thebes and Karnak

Why is the Nile an important river? Regional Gods Re - Heliopolis Ptah - Memphis Amon - Thebes E.g. Athena - Athens

 

Seth Trickster god disordered the world. Seth is similar to the Norse god Loki. Mix between dog and camel or jackal or pig’s head. Seth was not always seen as evil: he was just the opposite half. Represented as enemy who has to be eliminated. Isis Goddess Archetype mother Sister and wife of Osiris Isis was used as a symbol to express the duties and roles of a "good" woman.

Osiris Founder of Egypt and its civilization. Established civilization God of the underworld, death, and resurrection Horus Son of Osiris and Isis Falcon headed Left eye damaged in a fight with Seth and replaced with the moon Similar to ‘Raven’ story Horus was the archetype or role model of the "good" son.

 Victory Palette of Narmer - 3100 BCE

King Narmer rose to power and conquered Lower Egypt: ca. 3100 BC. He had been minor official in Upper Egypt. He and his successors: established a theocratic political system over entire navigable length of the Nile.
 
 

	c2254-2218BCE

St. Peter’s Basilica & Washington Monument
 

Cartoon from New Yorker magazine

Fowling Scene Tomb of Nebamun -
1400 - 1350 BCE
 

Last Judgement of Hu Nefer - 1290 to 1280 BCE,  Thebes
Left to right
Anubis (Seth), Ammit, feather of Maat, and Thoth, Horus and Osiris
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Last Judgement of Hu Nefer - 1290 to 1280 BCE,  Thebes Funeral Banner From the Tomb of Lady Dai 168 BCE Mawangdui, China Han Dynasty

Papyrus of Ani c1280BCE
 
 

Ptolemaic Period, ca. 332-30 B.C.
Papyrus and ink
30.0 cm H, 72.0 cm W (scene pictured)

Step Pyramid of King Zoser - 2675-2625 BCE
Saqqara (Lower Egypt)
Necropolis - city of the dead at Memphis
Made of hard clay, brick, cut stone, limestone

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Menkure (Mycerinus) c2460 Khafre (Chephren) c2500,  Khufu (Cheops) c2350,  Greek equivalents are in brackets

4,000 people using his technique instead of 100,000,  as postulated by other theorists.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Scenes from the Tomb of Nebamun c1350
Seated Scribe from Saqqara c2525 Mycerenus and Kha Merer Nebty circa 2500 BCE ka
Seated Scribe from Saqqara c2525 Mycerenus and Kha Merer Nebty circa 2500 BCE ka	Qin, Soldiers 221-207BCE  from the tomb of Qin Shihuangdi  (The First Emperor of Qin)
Prince Rahotep and his wife Nofret c2580 painted limestone
Khafre from Gizeh c2575
Kouros Figures: 7th c BCE

 
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