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1. The Sphinx

2. The Rosseta, Scri

bes, and Hieroglyphics

3. The Death Scroll

4. The Pyramids

5. The Canopic Jars

By Javier 6-313

http://www.guardians.net/egypt/sphinx/

http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/pyramids/about/sphinx.html

The Great SphinxThe Great Sphinx

The Great Sphinx was carved out of a natural rock. Some people think that there may be secret passage ways under the sphinx. It has a body of a lion and a head of a pharaoh. The pharaoh was the king and ruler of both Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt.

The Sphinx is a national symbol of Egypt. It stands in front of the pyramids. Its head was the biggest head in the world until the Americans carved the heads of the four presidents in North Dakota. The sphinx has been covered with sand all the way to its neck. It is a beautiful piece of Ancient Egyptian architecture.

http://egypt.mrdonn.org/hieroglyphics.html

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/egypt/rosetta.htm

The Rosetta Stone, Hieroglyphics and Scribes

The Rosetta stone is a stone that has three types of writings on it. It has three types of writings on it. It has three types of writings on it. They are Hieroglyphics, Late Egyptian, and Greek. This one was found in Rosetta, Egypt. Hieroglyphics is a type of writing used by Ancient Egyptians. Scribes were the only people that could write in hieroglyphics. Only 1% of ancient Egyptian could write in hieroglyphics.

Being a scribe was an extremely hard job. There were hundreds of different hieroglyphics to remember. It took twelve years to train as a scribe. Only boys could go to school, not girls. A job of a scribe was to write letters for other people who could not write, record amounts of crops that were harvested, and more. That’s a ton of work.

http://egypt.mrdonn.org/hieroglyphics.html

http://egypt.mrdonn.org/bookofthedead.htm

.htmhttp://www.touregypt.net/bkofdead

The Book of the DeadThe book of the dead

is really not a book. It is a scroll made of a plant called Papyrus. It has a bunch of spells written on it. The book also records what people wanted to bring with them when they died. They hired scribes to write down their personal things. Then the dead person would go to the next world or the Afterworld with their favorite belongings.

When they go to the Afterworld, they would have met Anubis. He was the judge that checked the balance. Ammit, who was part crocodile, part hippo and part lion or panther, was the god below the scale. He ate the person unworthy of going to the afterworld. The scale was the scale that judged the person. On one side went the heart and on the other went a feather of the god called Ma’at. If the feather was heavier than the heart, the person had lived a good life. If the heart was heavier than the feather, the person had lived a bad life full of sin and you already knows who would eat who.

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The Pyramids

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/egypt/pyramids.htm

Pyramids are the tombs of the past pharaohs. They were protections for the wrapped, dead body. The deserts heat helped the body from rotting away. The Great Sphinx is guarding the front of all the pyramids. They were made out of a stone called limestones. The blocks weighted about 2-15 tons.

http://touregypt.net/construction/

Most of the Egyptian pyramid were found in the western side of the Nile River on the dry, open dessert. They built them near the river because it would been easier to get the blocks from the ships on the water. The Great Sphinx Guards the pyramids. It has the body of a lion and the face of a pharaoh. The face is probably the face of the pharaoh Khafre.

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http://www.portnet.k12.ny.us/egyptmuseum/Canop.htm

http://egypt.mrdonn.org/canopicjars.html

The Canopic Jars

The Canopic jars were made for a person after they died. They were for the intestines, lungs, liver, and the stomach. The one of the sons of Horus were on each jar. The organs were carefully placed in these jars. The heart wasn’t in any of the jars. The Egyptians believed that the heart was the source of all intellegence, and emotions. The brain was also useless to them.

Canopic jars were used in the progress of mummification. They are important to the progress of mummification. The dead person’s organs were removed from the body. There were four protected jars. The human protected the liver. The falcon protected the intestines. The jackel or dog protected the stomach. The last one is the baboon who protected the lungs.



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