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HISTORY OF EGYPT• The origins of ancient Egyptian civilization,

which many regard as one of the fountainheads of Western culture, cannot be established with certainty. Archaeological evidence suggests that early dwellers in the Nile Valley were influenced by cultures of the Near East, but the degree of this influence is yet to be determined. Describing the development of Egyptian civilization, like attempts to identify its intellectual foundations, is largely a process of conjecture based on archaeological discoveries of enduring ruins, tombs, and monuments, many of which contain invaluable specimens of the ancient culture. Inscriptions in hieroglyphs, for instance, have provided priceless data.

BELIEF IN LIFE• Test on ones soul in order

to win eternal life.• Mummification was a way

that the dead could be preserved for the afterlife and buried with everything they would need in the afterlife.

• Later we would see even ordinary people afforded mummification

• Curse of Tut, Myth or Truth?

Egyptian skillz that killz• Medicine – Egyptian

physicians believed in magic, but also studied symptoms, diagnosing illness and would find cures to disease.

• Did surgery, created medical manuals on papyrus, as well as prescribed medicine that is still used today.

Writing – Hieroglyphics

Hieroglyphics is a form of picture writing.Paper was made of a plant near the Nile, called papyrusRosetta Stone – Stone with 3 forms of writing on it which was deciphered to under stand Hieroglyphics

Art and Literature

From tombs and wall paintings we know they Egyptians were very talented artisansWrote many folk tale stories of battle as well as poems and songs.They would share these with their Sumerian neighbors.

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