Egyptian Achievements

Hieroglyphics

RosettaStone

Obeliskand

Sphinx

Papyrus

Hieroglyphics

• The Egyptian writing system was called hieroglyphics and was one of the world’s first writing systems.

• Early hieroglyphics were written/carved on stone.

• Later, Egyptians invented papyrus, a long-lasting, paper-like material made from reeds.

• Instead of pens, scribes used brushes and ink.

Hieroglyphics used more than 600 symbols.

Each symbol represented one or more sounds.

Hieroglyphicscould be writtenhorizontally or

vertically.

They could be written from left to

right or right to left.

The Rosetta Stone• In 1799, slab of stone inscribed

with hieroglyphics was discovered.

• On the stone, a passage was written in three different texts: Hieroglyphics, Greek, and a later form of Egyptian.

• Scholars then compared the Greek text to the hieroglyphics to

decode what the text read.

Greek

Demotic HieroglyphicsThe stone

weighs 1,676 pounds.

The stonediscusses laws andhow to construct

a temple.

Egypt’s Great Temples

• Temples were the homes of the gods.

• People visited temples to worship, offer the gods gifts, and ask for favors.

• Many temples had rows of sphinxes lining the path leading to the entrance of the temple.

• Also, on either side of the gate stood obelisks, a tall, four-sided pillar that is pointed at the top.

Ancient obelisks were made of a single

piece of stone.

Criosphinx - body of lion with head of ram.

The sphinxes wereseen as guardian

statues.

King Tutankhamen• King Tut was a boy

king who ruled Egypt from age 9 through 19.

• King Tut’s tomb, found

in 1922, was one of the last Egyptian tombs to be discovered.

• His tomb was filled with treasures, jewelry, robes, a burial mask, and ivory statues.King Tut did very little

for Egypt but is very well known for his

lavish tomb discovered in the Valley of the Kings

My father triedto make Egypta monotheistic

society by believingin only one god,

Aton.

Canes werefound in Tut’s

tomb.

Basedon what

you know,what’sthat tell

us?