We have learned about their religious beliefs from not only Tombs, but also wall paintings

Believed in many gods Amon Re – Sun god Pharaoh was also seen

as a god Many believed in Isis

and Osiris story Monotheism or the

study of only one God, came about during this time by Pharaoh Akhenaton

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?

Farming in Summer, working for the Pharaoh in the off-season

Trade would expand the Merchant class.

“The foot of an Egyptian women may walk where it pleases and no one may deny her.”

Women had many rights including business owning, property rights and divorce

Many women worked outside the home and could even become a priest.

Hieroglyphics is a form of picture writing.

Paper was made of a plant near the Nile, called papyrus

Rosetta Stone – Stone with 3 forms of writing on it which was deciphered to under stand Hieroglyphics.

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.

Created 12 month calendar with 30 days each, which became basis for modern calendar.

Created practical geometry to survey land and create boundaries for farms

Engineered pyramids with Geometry to calculate each size and location of each stone.

From tombs and wall paintings we know they Egyptians were very talented artisans

Wrote many folk tale stories of battle as well as poems and songs.

They would share these with their Sumerian neighbors.